Arizona Tribe Holds Job Fair

Arizona’s Tohono O’odham Nation last week held a job fair and ordered slot machines for its Desert Diamond West Valley Casino in Glendale. The tribe plans to open the...

Published October 26, 2015

Tribes Probe Pot Parlors

The Santee Sioux in South Dakota plans a New Year’s Eve opening of a marijuana dispensary and smoking lounge, but faces opposition from the state’s governor. In New York,...

Published October 26, 2015

New Mexico Tribe to Open Casino in December

New Mexico’s Nambe Pueblo plans to open the Nambe Falls Casino in mid-December with 180 slot machines. The new casino will be a few miles south of Santa Fe.

Published October 26, 2015

Florida, Seminoles Nearing Compact Terms

A renewed gaming compact between Florida and the Seminole Tribe has a "better than 50 percent chance" of happening, said state Senator Rob Bradley (l.), Regulated Industries Committee chairman....

Published October 19, 2015

Connecticut Gaming Tribes Issue RFP for Satellite Casino

The tribes that operate Connecticut’s two casino, Foxwoods and the Mohegan Sun, last week issued requests for proposals from communities interested in hosting a third casino, a satellite intended...

Published October 19, 2015

Navajo President Calls Indian Gaming ‘Critical’ to Tribal Services

Indian gaming has proven “critical” to both economic development and assisting state programs and services according to Navajo National President Russell Begaye (l.). He was speaking at the annual...

Published October 19, 2015

New Cherokee Chief Fires, Transfers Employees

Patrick Lambert (l.), the new principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, began his term by transferring or firing several employees, including former Principal...

Published October 19, 2015

Northern California Casino has now Been Closed a Year

It has been a year since an armed incursion by one of the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians’ feuding factions led to the closing of the Chukchansi Gold...

Published October 19, 2015

Windsor, California, Rejects Ballot Measure on Lytton Deal

The town council of Windsor, California last week declined to put a deal that it has struck with the Lytton tribe on the ballot. Instead the council called on...

Published October 19, 2015

Arizona Sues Gaming Tribe for Lying About Casino

Arizona’s top gaming office, Daniel Bergin, has sued the Tohono O’odham Nation in federal court to stop its $200 million casino from opening near Glendale in December. This is...

Published October 19, 2015

California Casino Expansion Opens With 1,000 More Slots

Southern California’s Viejas Casino & Resort has opened a new gaming floor with 1,000 slot machines and 15,000 square feet of additional space, plus a hotel tower with 128...

Published October 19, 2015

Tribe Renovates St. Paul Hotel

The Mille Lacs Band debuted the renovated InterContinental Saint Paul Riverfront hotel (l.), formerly the landmark Crowne Plaza. The tribe also owns the Grand Casino Mille Lacs and Grand...

Published October 19, 2015

Seminoles Reward Poker Players Comp Dollars

Effective October 1, poker players at Seminole Hard Rock Casinos in Hollywood, Tampa, Coconut Creek and Immokalee, Florida now receive Comp Dollars, just like slot and table games players....

Published October 19, 2015

Otoe-Missouria Building Fifth Casino

Ground recently was broken on the Otoe-Missouria Tribe's 7 Clans Perry Casino in Perry, Oklahoma. The tribe's fifth casino will open in spring 2016 on trust property in a...

Published October 19, 2015

Minnesota County Board Hears Casino Details

The Otter Tail County, Minnesota board recently heard details about the White Earth Nation's Star Lake Casino to be built on trust land with 5,500 feet of lake frontage....

Published October 19, 2015

Few Oppose Michigan Casino

The Bureau of Indian Affairs held a public hearing on an environmental review for the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians' proposed $180 million, off-reservation casino in Muskegon, Michigan....

Published October 19, 2015

Pamunkey Federal Recognition Challenged

The 207-member Pamunkey Indians, who claim Pocahontas as an ancestor, became Virginia's first federally recognized tribe last year. But a last-minute effort to block that status recently was filed...

Published October 19, 2015

Supreme Court Allows Wisconsin Video Poker Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court recently refused to consider an appeals court's ruling that Wisconsin must criminalize video poker games at the Ho-Chunk Nation's casino in Madison before the state...

Published October 19, 2015

Moody’s Gives Cowlitz Project B Rating

Moody's Investor Service gave the Cowlitz Tribal Gaming Authority a B3 rating on its $485 million casino-resort near La Center, Washington. Moody's noted the rating—indicating a speculative obligation--is typical...

Published October 19, 2015

MGM Insists It Wants to Build a Connecticut Casino

Defending its claim that it would be harmed if a Connecticut law that allows the state’s two gaming tribes to seek a third casino stands, MGM has renewed its...

Published October 12, 2015