Seminole Coconut Creek Opens Smoke-Free Area

A new non-smoking area, Level2, recently opened at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, featuring 100 slots, blackjack and other table games. The casino also will install a $1 million filtration...

Published February 29, 2016

Judge Says California Acted in Bad Faith Against Tribe

The California legislature acted in bad faith by refusing to vote on a compact for the Enterprise Rancheria of Maidu Indians, a federal judge ruled last week. The judge...

Published February 29, 2016

White Earth Nation Casino Meetings Coming

The White Earth Nation announced last September it would start construction on a third Shooting Star Casino this year. However, the tribe has not made a formal construction proposal...

Published February 29, 2016

Arizona Tribe Resumes Study of Casino Site

An Arizona tribe has begun do soil studies on a casino site near Prescott after letting the project lie fallow for two years. The Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe wants to...

Published February 29, 2016

Attorney General, Tribe Prevent VictoryLand Reopening

The association of Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange (l.) with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians is the reason why VictoryLand Casino in Macon County hasn't reopened, claimed Tuskegee...

Published February 22, 2016

Connecticut Mistake But No Casino

A Connecticut tribe that would like a piece of the casino action that so far has been limited to the Mohegan and Pequot tribes has been told that a...

Published February 22, 2016

California Tribe Seeks Recognition

A tribe whose land sits smack dab under the University of California Irvine (l.) wants recognition that its land was taken away from it more than 100 years ago....

Published February 22, 2016

Wyoming Casino Does $30 Million Renovation

A Wyoming tribe, the East Shoshone, is doing a $30 renovation of the Shoshone Rose Casino in Fremont County. The tribe is building a hotel and expanding the casino...

Published February 22, 2016

Washington Judge Shuts Down Fireworks Stand on Tribal Land

A judge in Kitsap County, Washington does not buy that land owned by the Suquamish Tribe is immune from state law. The judge has shut down a fireworks stand...

Published February 22, 2016

Washington Tribe Celebrates Casino Groundbreaking

After waiting for 16 years to get their land in Washington state put in trust, the Cowlitz tribe celebrated their new status and the groundbreaking for their new casino—all...

Published February 22, 2016

Water Park, Spa Open At Treasure Island

The $9 million Lagoon water park and upscale Wave Spa recently opened at Treasure Island Resort & Casino in Welch, Minnesota, owned and operated by the Prairie Island Indian...

Published February 22, 2016

Sault Tribe Foresees Airport-Area Casino

The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians said it's ready to develop an off-reservation casino complex, including a casino in an abandoned church plus social service offices, on...

Published February 22, 2016

Seneca Nation Advances Development Plans

The Seneca Nation said it plans to build and open a gas station on land the tribe owns within the city of Niagara Falls, and local officials and owners...

Published February 22, 2016

Kialegees May Seek New Casino Site

The Kialegee Tribal Town's unfinished Red Clay Casino is an unwelcome eyesore in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. A federal court ruled the tribe could not conduct gambling on the Indian...

Published February 22, 2016

Tribal Casino Project Proceeds Despite Bats

The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians' plans for a $400 million casino in South Bend, Indiana could have been sidelined because of the northern long-eared bat, a threatened species...

Published February 22, 2016

North California Casino Proposal Stirs Controversy

A tribe that lost its land and status in the 1950s, the Wilton Rancheria, proposals to return to its homeland in California’s Sacramento Valley and open a casino there....

Published February 22, 2016

Florida House Committee Approves Compact Ratification

The Florida House Regulatory Affairs Committee approved ratifying the Seminole compact, which gives the tribe exclusive rights to offer blackjack and adds roulette and craps at their casinos, including...

Published February 15, 2016

Connecticut Tribes Nearer to Choosing Casino Site

MMCT a joint venture of Connecticut’s gaming tribes, the Pequots and the Mohegans, says that it will soon name a site for the third casino that the tribes want...

Published February 15, 2016

Bill Would Prevent Another Lytton Casino

A northern California representative in the U.S. House has introduced a bill that would allow a Bay Area tribe to put land into trust, but would not allow a...

Published February 15, 2016

Quapaw Land Deal Nixed

The Little Rock Port Authority in Arkansas backed out of a tentative deal allowing the Quapaw tribe in Oklahoma visit, observe, and protect historical and cultural sites it owns...

Published February 15, 2016