The grand opening of Melco Crown’s highly anticipated City of Dreams resort in Manila is set for February 2. On hand for the celebration will be company co-chairmen Lawrence...
With a strong 2014 in the books, the Las Vegas Strip looks to continue with the upward trend they are currently riding. While Atlantic City and Macau continue to...
Bloomberry Resorts Corp., based in the Philippines, has bought 12.2 hectares (30.1 acres) of land on Muui Island in South Korea. The property in the Incheon Free Economic Zone...
Trump Entertainment Resorts has won approval in bankruptcy court to present a plan to turn control of its troubled Atlantic City properties to billionaire Carl Icahn (l.) to its...
China Star Entertainment has about a month to dispose of several plots of prime real estate in Macau. The land, worth HKD2.23 billion (US$288 million) is next to the...
Video gambling revenues more than doubled in Illinois, with the games generating $165 million for the state in 2014, up $75 million from 2013. Municipalities received $33 million, compared...
The closed Revel casino in Atlantic City has reached a tax assessment settlement with the city that reduces its assessment to $225 million. Originally, the casino was assessed at...
Republican Rep. Ronald Hubert will pass along a bill asking for the approval of a casino license in Vermont. Hubert has failed six straight years, but has re-structured this...
Minutes after the New Orleans city council unanimously approved a city-wide smoking ban, Councilwoman Nadine Ramsey offered a new ordinance allowing smoking in half of Harrah's Casino. Ramsey said...
A “unification” council comprised of all factions of the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of California has been elected to reopen the tribe’s Chukchansi casino (l.) and oversee...
With the collapse of the Las Vegas project Fontainebleau, hotelier Jeffrey Soffer was in court with creditors, who sought out a claim of $2 billion against Soffer. A bankruptcy...
A framework for allowing most of Washington’s tribe’s to add slot machines regularly to meet market demands is on its way to Governor Jay Inslee (l.) for his approval.
The numbers are in for Las Vegas Sands, which show a profit of $721.3 million for the fourth-quarter, and $2.84 billion on the year. Gaming revenue accounted for 82...
The gaming compact between six Native American tribes and the state of New Mexico will expire this year. But after years of negotiations, a new compact has been proposed...
A bill has been introduced in New Jersey to dedicate $1.35 million for the retraining of displaced casino workers. More than 8,000 casino workers lost their jobs in Atlantic...
The Coeur d'Alene tribe recently proposed legislation that would ban instant racing in Idaho, even though it was approved by the state in 2013 as a way to raise...
Massachusetts' four casino licenses, which are sure to help the state out, are predicted to cripple business in adjoining Rhode Island. An estimated $1 billion per year is spent...
Build faster! That’s the message of the city of Glendale, Arizona, which wants the Tohono O’odham tribe to work quickly to finish its tribal casino next to the city....
Senator John Barrasso (l.), who heads the committee that oversees Indian affairs in Washington, wants to revise many federal laws that impact tribes, including the process for approving state...