Southern California Casino Waiting for BIA Decision

Barstow, a Southern California city along Interstate 15 on the road to Las Vegas, is hoping for a favorable ruling by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on an application...

Published March 3, 2015

Florida Compact Or Marijuana Farm

If Florida Governor Rick Scott doesn't start serious gaming compact negotiations with the Alabama-based Poarch Creek Band of Indians, allowing them to open a casino on their one-acre Escambia...

Published March 3, 2015

Idaho’s Gaming Tribes Generate $1 Billion Annually

Idaho’s five casino tribes have published a report they commissioned that shows that their combined business activities resulted in over $1 billion in annual sales last year.

Published March 3, 2015

Deadline Passes; Walker Rejects Proposal

The Menominee Tribe's offer of $220 million for a new Milwaukee Bucks stadium, plus tribal members' freezing 155-mile march to the Capitol, failed to convince Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker...

Published February 23, 2015

Idaho Senate Votes to Ban ‘Instant Racing” at Racetracks

Owners of Idaho racetracks that operate “instant racing” were stunned last week when the state Senate voted to ban the machines that have been operating for a year now....

Published February 23, 2015

Washington Tribes to Get More Slot Machines

Newly negotiated tribal state gaming compacts will give Washington’s gaming tribes 2,700 slot machines immediately, and let market conditions determine how many they have in future years. Governor Jay...

Published February 23, 2015

Florida Legislators Not Counting On Compact

Florida legislators are not counting on the $200 million provided by the Seminole Tribe under its gaming compact, which will expire in July. Tribal officials said they could offer...

Published February 23, 2015

New Mexico Gaming Compact Awaits Legislative Approval

The proposed gaming compact negotiated between New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez's administration and several tribes will have its first legislative committee hearing this week. Jicarilla Apache President Ty Vicenti...

Published February 23, 2015

Tribes That Game May Get Into Pot Growing

If casino gaming is good for a tribe’s bottom line, why not growing medical marijuana? Following an advisory by the U.S. Justice Department, some tribes are looking into becoming...

Published February 23, 2015

North Carolina Casino Set For Summer Opening

The under-construction $110 million Cherokee Valley River Casino (l.), owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, is on schedule to open in late summer in Murphy, North Carolina....

Published February 23, 2015

California Card Rooms Bristle at Charges They Aren’t Regulated Enough

Card rooms in the Golden State stoutly maintain that they are just as heavily regulated as Indian casinos, and moreover that their regulations are enforced in the light of...

Published February 23, 2015

Quapaws Want Gaming On Parking Lot

The National Indian Gaming Commission said the Quapaw Tribe can extend gaming at its Oklahoma Downstream casino (l.) onto a parking lot—in Kansas. Strongly opposed are the Kansas attorney...

Published February 23, 2015

California Casino Begins $5 Million Renovation

One of the largest casino resorts in Southern California, Pala Casino Spa & Resort, has begun a $5 million renovation and addition that will open this May.

Published February 23, 2015

Michigan Casino Announces Expansion

Island Resort & Casino in Harris Township, Michigan announced a two-year expansion and renovation project. Owned and operated by the Hannahville Indian Community, a band of the Potawatomi Nation,...

Published February 23, 2015

Seminole Compact Deadline Approaching

The Seminole compact will end July 31 unless it's renewed by Florida Governor Rick Scott (l.) with the legislature's approval. Currently the tribe has exclusive rights to offer blackjack...

Published February 16, 2015

Menominee Tribe Considering Options

The Menominee Indian Tribe has a new chair, renewed its option on Dairyland Greyhound Park, offered to contribute $220 million toward a new downtown Milwaukee stadium and is keeping...

Published February 16, 2015

Catawbas Await Feds Casino Decision

The Catawba Indian Nation is waiting for the federal government's decision if it will take into trust land for casino development in Cleveland County, North Carolina. The tribe submitted...

Published February 16, 2015

Slot Expansion in Connecticut Dead for 2015, Says Senate Leader

The Connecticut Senate’s majority leader says that expanding slots in the Nutmeg State is a non-starter this year, but that hasn’t prevented hearings on the proposal from progressing in...

Published February 16, 2015

Federal Judge Says Tribal Faction Acted in ‘Bad Faith’

Although a U.S. District Judge says that a faction of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi in California acted in bad faith by ignoring his order to pay a stipend...

Published February 16, 2015

Arizona Tribes Divided Over Glendale Casino

Gaming tribes that stand to be harmed by competition from the casino the Tohono O’odham Nation is building near Phoenix, Arizona are strongly opposed to the facility. Now that...

Published February 16, 2015