Second Shooting Star Casino Opens

The White Earth Nation's second Shooting Star Casino recently opened near Bagley, Minnesota. The 21,400 square feet venue offers170-plus slots and a new restaurant. The original Shooting Star in...

Published August 22, 2016

Bondholders Get Stuck Holding California Casino Bag

Bondholders who wagered on the future of a casino in Northern California have gotten stuck holding the bag. Nuveen Asset Management and OppenheimerFunds Inc., are among those who will...

Published August 22, 2016

Cowlitz Decision Means 40 Percent Loss For Grand Ronde

The Grand Ronde Tribe of Oregon faces a grim reality now that its lawsuit to try to stop the Cowlitz tribe from building a casino in Washington, in La...

Published August 22, 2016

California Casino Resort Announces Expansion

The Cache Creek Casino Resort in Northern California has announced plans to expand its hotel with the addition of 459 rooms. That will bring the total of rooms to...

Published August 22, 2016

‘Project Forward’ Upgrades Winnebago Casinos

The Wisconsin Winnebago Tribe will expand and upgrade Ho-Chunk casinos at Wisconsin Dells, Black River Falls and Wittenberg through a $153 million program named "Project Forward," set to begin...

Published August 22, 2016

New Navajo Law Expedites Land Purchases, Sales

Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye (l.) and Vice President Jonathan Nez recently approved the Navajo Nation Land Acquisition Act, which will expedite buying and selling industrial and commercial properties....

Published August 22, 2016

MGM Maintains War Against Third Connecticut Casino

MGM Resorts last week released documents that it obtained in a Freedom of Information Request that lifts the rock to reveal the inner workings of the Connecticut Airport Authority...

Published August 15, 2016

Federal Judge Rebuffs Arizona Official

Arizona Gaming Director Daniel Bergin has long fought the Tohono O'odham's Class II Glendale casino (Desert Diamond West, l.) , which opened last year. Bergin wrote to competing casino...

Published August 15, 2016

Genting Reiterates Support for Project First Light

A federal judge’s decision that the Interior’s decision to place 151 acres into trust for the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe in Massachusetts was in error has not dissuaded the project’s...

Published August 15, 2016

Card Rooms, Tribes, Battle Over New Rule

California’s card rooms and gaming tribes are battling over a rule that each group says costs it money if it is interpreted wrong. For the card clubs, the interpretation...

Published August 15, 2016

Tribal Court Restores Grand Ronde Memberships

The 2014 mass disenrollment of 66 Grand Ronde Tribe descendants recently was revered by the Grand Ronde Tribal Court of Appeals. The descendants trace their lineage to Chief Tumulth,...

Published August 15, 2016

Guests Protest Hard Rock Parking Fee

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa, Florida now charges $10 to park after 30 minutes. A spokesperson said the property will add officers and improve garage lighting....

Published August 15, 2016

California Tribe Wants to Move Casino

A tribe based in Northern California, the Tule River Tribe, wants to move the casino it first opened 20 years ago. It has announced plans to move Eagle Mountain...

Published August 15, 2016

Graton to Open Hotel in November

One of California’s biggest casinos is about to get bigger with the addition of a new casino hotel. The Graton Resort and Casino, owned by California’s Federated Indians of...

Published August 15, 2016

Feds Overturn Voters of California

The federal government last week gave permission to the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians to open their off-reservation casino Madera County. The decision overturns an election held in...

Published August 15, 2016

Harrah’s So Cal Begins Expansion

Harrah’s So Cal Resort in San Diego, owned by the Rincon Band of Mission Indians, has begun a $14 million construction that includes the addition of the first tribal...

Published August 15, 2016

Buffalo Casino Expansion Nearly Done

The Seneca Nation’s $40 million Buffalo Creek Casino expansion is proceeding as planned in Buffalo’s historic Cobblestone District. City officials hope the expanded gaming operations will generate an addition...

Published August 15, 2016

South Bend Casino In Comment Period

Following the recent release of an Environmental Impact Statement by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians' proposed South Bend, Indiana casino entered a 30-day...

Published August 8, 2016

California Tribe Threatens to Purge Membership Rolls

Intratribal rivalries continue at the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians in California, where political conflicts caused their tribal casino to close for 14 months. Now the tribal faction...

Published August 8, 2016

District Court Ruling Doesn’t Halt Mashpees

The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, which has begun a $1 billion casino in Taunton, Massachusetts, (Tribal Chairman Cedric Cromwell and Taunton Mayor Thomas Hoye, l. to r.) was struck a...

Published August 8, 2016