Canada to Consider Full Sports Betting

With a new liberal government about to take control of Canada’s government, NDP MP Brian Masse (l.) say they plan to revive a measure to legalize single-game sports betting...

Published November 2, 2015

Samoa Looks for Major Hotel, Possible Casino

The government of Samoa is seeking proposals for a 250-room hotel development that could include a casino. The country wants the project run by a major brand.

Published November 2, 2015

‘Sting’ Stokes Pokie Battle in New Zealand

Following an undercover news report on compulsive gambling, New Zealand’s Green Party has more ammo to fight additional pokie machines at SkyCity Entertainment. Gambling foes are preparing a suit...

Published November 2, 2015

Packer Ups the Ante

Australian casino giant James Packer will empty his pockets—almost—and plow $10 billion into new casino investments Down Under. Among other developments: a $1.5 billion hotel and apartment tower (l.)...

Published October 26, 2015

Oregon Tribe Buys Former Dog Racing Track

An Oregon tribe, the Grand Ronde tribal confederation has bought Multnomah Greyhound Park (l.), a defunct dog-racing park in Wood Village to keep it from ever housing a casino...

Published October 26, 2015

Interior, Choctaw, Chickasaw Nations Settle Land Trust Dispute

The federal government and two Oklahoma tribes October 5 signed an historic $86 million settlement that ends over a hundred years of claims by the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations....

Published October 26, 2015

BIA Holds Muskegon Casino Meeting

The Bureau of Indian Affairs held a public hearing on an Environmental Impact Statement for the Little River Band of Ottawa Indian’s proposed Muskegon County, Michigan casino. The project...

Published October 26, 2015

Baha Mar Fires More Than 2,000 Employees

The liquidator designated by Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie to end the Baha Mar (l.) standoff has declared that more than 2,000 of the property’s employees are “redundant” and...

Published October 26, 2015

Industry Wonders if Casinos Will Return to Cuba

Although the number of people who ever gambled in Cuba’s fabled casinos (the Tropicana in Havana at left) is dwindling, the romance of the place remains. Now that diplomatic...

Published October 26, 2015

Aussies Embrace Pokie Machines

A new study indicates nearly 3 million Australian adults played pokie machines during the past three months and more than a million during the past week, and most do...

Published October 26, 2015

New Oz Casino?

A consultant group has been hired by the Shire of Broome in Western Australia to assess the viability of a casino project in what some reports have described as...

Published October 26, 2015

Talks Begin to Salvage Baha Mar

The three major stakeholders in the stalled Baha Mar resort project in the Bahamas have begun talks aimed at completing the project. Bahamas Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson (l.) is...

Published October 19, 2015

Paraguay to Announce Winning Bidders

The government of Paraguay is preparing to announce the winners of two 10-year gaming licenses in Asunción. Each developer must pledge to invest at least $10 million, and will...

Published October 19, 2015

OLG, Casino Workers Reach Pension Deal

An undisclosed, tentative deal has been reached between locked-out members of Unifor and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. The OLG locked out the workers last month after reaching...

Published October 19, 2015

Sounds Familiar: Echo Brisbane Looks to Chinese VIPs

The developers of Brisbane’s Queen’s Wharf development project are counting on Asian high rollers to butter their bread. Echo Entertainment will build the $2 billion waterfront resort, designed to...

Published October 19, 2015

Toronto Raids Illegal Operations

Toronto police are cracking down in illegal gambling in the city and recently raided 30 locations, including three illegal casinos and nine illegal gambling houses, resulting in charges against...

Published October 19, 2015

Push to End Tasmanian Monopoly

Critics of a 22-year-old gaming monopoly in the Australian state of Tasmania are attacking an arrangement that gives one firm the exclusive right to offer poker in the region.

Published October 12, 2015

PMU Brasil Formed To Promote Racing

Pari Mutuel Urbain and the Jockey Club Brasiliero have formed a joint venture to promote horseracing in Brazil through a new subsidiary, PMU Brasil. PMU will operate betting for...

Published October 12, 2015

Australia, New Zealand Battle for Chinese Gamers

Tourism from China is suddenly a big business in New Zealand and Australia, who are scrambling to attract all kinds of visitors from new economic powerhouse, including visitors to...

Published October 5, 2015

Fitch: Crown, Echo A-OK

Fitch Ratings says Crown Resorts Ltd. and Echo Entertainment, Australia’s top gaming companies and ongoing rivals, are holding steady credit-wise despite weaker economies and expansion plans that were made...

Published October 5, 2015