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

Lots Of Activity At North Carolina Casino Site

Mass grading is nearly complete and state and local agencies are preparing infrastructure at Harrah's Cherokee Valley River Casino and Hotel near Murphy, North Carolina, scheduled to open next...

Published June 23, 2014

California Asks Feds to Intervene in Tribal Near-Civil war

Two factions of California’s Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians have come perilously close to bloodshed over the operation of the Rolling Hills Casino in Northern California. Attorney General Kamala...

Published June 23, 2014

Ho-Chunk Can’t Join Lawsuit

Ho-Chunk Inc. may not join Penn National Gaming's lawsuit against the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission, said District Court Judge Eliza Ovrom in Polk County, Iowa. Ovrom said Ho-Chunk,...

Published June 23, 2014

Off-reservation Casino Subject of California Referendum

Very few issues release the floodgates of political money in California like voters initiatives involving Indian gaming. The otherwise staid list of measures on the November ballot includes one...

Published June 23, 2014

San Diego Contractor Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Tribe

A Southern California contractor has pled guilty for defrauding a Northern California tribe, the Auburn Indian Community out of $17 million. Bart Wayne Volen admitted to federal charges for...

Published June 23, 2014

Wisconsin Tribe Must Remove Video Games

A federal judge recently ordered the Ho-Chunk tribe to remove video poker games from its casino in Madison, Wisconsin. The judge said the games defy the tribe's compact with...

Published June 23, 2014

California Tribe’s Loan Fuels Casino Suspicions

Officials in California’s wine country are always on the lookout for suspicious activities by Indian tribes, who they worry might build a casino in Napa Valley. So they are...

Published June 23, 2014

Family Desires Casino On Trust Land

Land owned by Quinault Nation member Roberta Law Ross was placed in trust in the 1920s. Now family members want to pursue a casino on the 0.79-acre site—but there's...

Published June 23, 2014