California Casino Sets Expansion

The California-based Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians recently self-certified its environmental statement. It plans to begin construction on its $112 million expansion of the Chumash Casino Resort this...

Published October 6, 2014

U.S. Lottery: $17.5B in Online Bets?

The online lottery industry in the United States is potentially worth as much as $17.5 billion in annual sales, according to a new market report. A betting operator commissioned...

Published October 6, 2014

Shinnecocks Dissolve Gaming Authority

A majority of Shinnecock Nation tribal members voted last month to disband the tribe’s gaming authority, once led by former trustee Lance Gumbs (l.). The authority was first established...

Published October 6, 2014

Failed Seminole Gaming Compact ‘Largest of its Kind’

A tentative agreement between Florida Governor Rick Scott and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, operators of the Hard Rock Casino Hollywood (l.), that was never completed would have been...

Published October 6, 2014

Connecticut Challenges BIA Proposals

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy (l.) and the state's Congressional delegation are united in opposing the Bureau of Indian Affair's proposed rule changes that they say would allow more federally...

Published October 6, 2014

Arizona Senator McCain Leads Effort to Stop Glendale Casino

U.S. Senator John McCain, who wrote the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, has co-sponsored a bill that would, he says, prevent violating the spirit of that law by...

Published September 29, 2014

Judge Stays Live Poker Injunction

U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill recently denied a motion to suspend an injunction he imposed earlier this month on live poker games at the Coeur d'Alene Tribe's northern...

Published September 29, 2014

NLRB Rules Against Tribe

The National Labor Relations Board recently ruled the Fair Employment Practices Code of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians in Michigan is in violation of the National Labor...

Published September 29, 2014

Things Remain Tense on Northern California Rancheria

Two feuding factions of the Picayune Rancheria in Northern California are being kept separated by overworked Madera County Sheriff’s deputies, while the Chukchansi Gold Resort and Casino continues to...

Published September 29, 2014

Voters Will Decide Fate of Northern California Casino

For the first time ever, voters in the Golden State will be able to vote on the issue of whether a tribe can build a casino on land located...

Published September 29, 2014

Bentley Urged To Start Compact Talks

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (l.) is being urged to begin preliminary compact talks with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians as the state faces a projected $200 million deficit....

Published September 29, 2014

Still No Potawatomi Payment

The Potawatomi Tribe still has not handed over its $25 million annual gaming-revenue payment to Wisconsin. Tribal officials said they're waiting to see if Governor Scott Walker will approve...

Published September 29, 2014

Senate Holds Glendale Casino Hearings

In new developments regarding the Tohono O'odham Nation's $500 million casino in Glendale, Arizona, which recently broke ground, a U.S. Senate panel recently heard testimony on a bill sponsored...

Published September 22, 2014

Walker: Tribal Compacts Complicate Decision

Past tribal compacts with the Forest County Potawatomi are complicating Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's decision regarding the Menominee Nation's proposed $810 million, off-reservation Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in...

Published September 22, 2014

Council Election Could End Factional Battle at Gaming Tribe

The feud that split the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians in Northern California and threatened several times to close the Rolling Hills Casino, appears to be over. A new...

Published September 22, 2014

Maine Studies 3rd Casino; Tribes Want In

Does Maine need another casino? Lawmakers asked a consulting firm to study the issue and make recommendations about the potential success of a third gaming hall. The study says...

Published September 22, 2014

Tribal Casinos Fight Labor Laws

The Saginaw Chippewa tribe in Michigan has challenged the National Labor Relations Board in federal appeals court. At issue is tribal sovereignty versus the right of private-sector workers to...

Published September 22, 2014

Oklahoma Judge Hears Cherokee Rebuttals

In its efforts to keep the United Keetoowah Band's Tahlequah, Oklahoma casino closed and to prevent the land it sits on from being taken into federal trust, the Cherokee...

Published September 22, 2014

Choctaw Hotel Tower Loses 8 Stories

Due to permitting issues with the Federal Aviation Administration, Choctaw Nation officials announced the new hotel at its Choctaw Casino and Resort (l.) in Durant, Oklahoma will be 14...

Published September 22, 2014

Seminole Hard Rock Holds Job Fairs

One hundred workers will be needed at the new Japanese restaurant opening at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, where four job fairs will be...

Published September 22, 2014