Once again, Illinois state Rep. Robert Rita (l.) has offered expanded gambling legislation in a measure allowing a casino in Chicago and another permitting five new casinos. Rita's bill...
Marion, Illinois Mayor Robert Butler said although his municipality collected $111,137 in video gaming receipts on $27 million played in 2014, he has doubts about the games' value. "On...
Trump Entertainment, which is trying to keep Atlantic City’s troubled Taj Mahal casino open through a difficult bankruptcy fight, has reached an agreement with a panel of the casino’s...
After a 2014 which saw slight increases in gaming revenue, new owners Blackstone Real Estate Partners have decided to add a new weapon to their arsenal; longtime gaming executive...
Iowa legislators listened for 15 minutes then took no action after hearing the pros and cons of requiring the Racing and Gaming Commission to grant two licenses for smoke-free...
At a Florida Forward forum in Orlando, Geoff Freeman, president of the American Gaming Association, said "mistruths are being told" about the casino industry, while John Sowinski, president of...
After a fantastic 2014, which saw Station Casinos haul in nearly $1.3 billion in revenue, many are speculating the company may go public next June, five years after a...
The $400 million casino that the Tohono O’odham Nation is building near Glendale is starting to rise from the desert, but a temporary casino will open sometime in 2015.
A recent gathering of members from Westbury, New York helped to nix the building of a casino in Long Island. Now, one lawmaker is attempting to take it one...
Lawmakers in New Mexico are holding hearings on a tribal state gaming compact that is the result of three years of negotiations between Governor Susanna Martinez and the tribes....
Mississippi's 11 Gulf Coast casinos delivered a 7 percent increase in January 2015 over January 2014, at $87.3 million. Statewide, Mississippi casinos won $165 million January 2015, up 3.4...
The Shawnee Tribe with its partner Global Gaming Solutions will build a 60,000 square foot casino-entertainment center near Guymon, Oklahoma in the Panhandle region. The project will create 175...
Located just 10 miles from the Menominee tribe's proposed $800 million casino in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the town of Zion, Illinois has made it clear it would welcome the development....
A bill has been introduced which would put an end to the declining greyhound racing industry in West Virginia. $36.5 million would be used as a buyout for owners...
Two years ago the Bureau of Indian Affairs told the Pokagon Band of Indians the agency would issue a draft environmental impact statement on 164 acres the tribe owns...
Barstow, a Southern California city along Interstate 15 on the road to Las Vegas, is hoping for a favorable ruling by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on an application...
Ladbrokes Plc., a London-based betting company, may close up to 60 retail betting shops, foe a total of 150 closures in the past 12 months. Bookmakers in the U.K....
If Florida Governor Rick Scott doesn't start serious gaming compact negotiations with the Alabama-based Poarch Creek Band of Indians, allowing them to open a casino on their one-acre Escambia...
OPAP, Greece’s largest betting company, projects annual net revenues from €800 million to €1 billion (US$895 billion to $1.1 trillion) from video lottery terminals when they open around the...