North California Casino Ready to Pay off Loan

This could be a record: The Graton Rancheria of Northern California has positioned itself to pay off its $200-million redevelopment loan seven months after opening the Graton Resort and...

Published July 14, 2014

Senecas Open New York Mini-Casino

Seneca Gaming Corp., based in western New York, has opened its newest gaming facility, the Oil Spring Casino in the town of Cuba. The mini-casino has 100 slot machines...

Published July 14, 2014

BIA Clears Way for Arizona Casino

The Indian Affairs division of the Interior Department last week indicated it would approve the request of the Tohono O’odham Nation to take a plot of land into trust...

Published July 7, 2014

Federal Court Agrees With Massachusetts Tribe About Jurisdiction

A federal judge agrees with the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) that its lawsuit with the state of Massachusetts over its desire to build a Class II casino...

Published July 7, 2014

California Wants to Maintain Firearms Ban at Tribal Casino

A two-week federal restraining order banning firearms within 300 feet of the Rolling Hills Casino has done such a good job of maintaining the peace on the strife-torn reservation...

Published July 7, 2014

Cowlitz Tribe To Upgrade Site—Maybe

The Cowlitz Tribe wants to spend $30 million to develop its 152-acre tract in Clark County, Washington, which the Department of Interior has taken into federal trust. But the...

Published July 7, 2014

California Tribe Waits for Legislature to Ratify Compact

Twelve years after beginning its efforts to build a casino, the Estom Yumeka Maidu Tribe is waiting for the California legislature to act on its gaming compact with the...

Published July 7, 2014

California Voters Could Repeal Tribal Compact

Voters in the Golden State will vote on whether to overturn a tribal gaming compact with the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians that allows them to build an...

Published July 7, 2014

Loan Package Allows Choctaw Renovations

The Silver Star Hotel and Casino will get a facelift and the Golden Moon Hotel Casino (l.) will reopen thanks to a loan package recently received by the Choctaw...

Published July 7, 2014

Plans for Spa Hotel Site Still in Flux

The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians are not yet revealing what they will do with the land when they demolish the Spa Resort hotel in Palm Springs. The...

Published July 7, 2014

Foxwoods Teams With Major Concert Promoter

AEG Live of Los Angeles will bring to performers to Foxwoods Resort Casino through an agreement designed to help Foxwoods stand out in an increasingly competitive market. AEG Live...

Published July 7, 2014

Bingo Gone, Hotel Coming At Potawatomi

In anticipation of its new $97.5 million, 381-room hotel, opening August 18, "bingo" is gone from the name of the Forest County Potawatomi Community's Milwaukee facility. Now it's Potawatomi...

Published July 7, 2014

Poker Room Opens At WinnaVegas

A new eight-table poker room recently opened at WinnaVegas Casino in Sloan, Iowa, offering Texas Hold ‘em, 7 Card Stud and Omaha High-Low Split. Marketing Manager Travis Morgan said...

Published July 7, 2014

Iowa Tribe Wins Right to Offer Poker

The state of Idaho recently lost its bid to stop poker at the Coeur d'Alene Casino in Worley. U.S. District Court Chief Judge B. Lynn Winmill said the state...

Published June 30, 2014

Feds Forbid Firearms at Explosive California Reservation

Federal Judge Kimberly J. Mueller issued a temporary restraining order last week to cool down the combative factions of California’s the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians. The order forbids...

Published June 30, 2014

Casino Advisory Vote On November Ballot

Voters in Siskiyou County, California will be able to vote in November on an advisory measure regarding the Karuk Tribe's proposed casino in Yreka, California. Supporters said the outcome...

Published June 30, 2014

Act Not Meant To Aid Casinos, Says Former Congressman

In its recent land-trust applications to the Interior Department, the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe cited the Michigan Land Claims Settlement Act of 1997. However, the act's author, former U.S....

Published June 30, 2014

Senate Candidates Seek Tribal Support

With 58,000 residents in North Carolina, the Lumbee Tribe is being courted by both candidates for U.S. Senate: Democrat U.S. Senator Kay Hagan and Republican North Carolina House Speaker...

Published June 30, 2014

Michigan Tribe Applies For Land Trust Status

With trust applications filed with the Department of Interior, the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians hopes to build off-reservation casinos in downtown Lansing (l.) and near the...

Published June 23, 2014

Senecas to Open Slot Hall July 4

The New York tribal nation is on pace to open a new slots-only casino on its territory on the Fourth of July. The new casino, located less than 40...

Published June 23, 2014