Senecas Owe New York $255 Million

An arbitration panel has ruled in favor of the Cuomo administration, declaring the Senecas, which operate several casinos including Seneca Niagara (l.), to be in violation of their compact...

Published April 22, 2019

N. Cal. Casino Will Hire Locally

Jobs galore are expected to be generated when Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sacramento at Fire Mountain opens this fall. It will be hiring in Sutter-Yuba counties in Northern...

Published April 15, 2019

Seminole Hard Rock Named Employer of Choice

Seminole Hard Rock was named Employer of Choice for the fourth consecutive year in the 18th annual Casino Gaming Executive Satisfaction Survey. The online survey, conducted August through October...

Published April 15, 2019

Comanche Nation Petitions Supreme Court

The Comanche Nation asked the U.S. Supreme Court to concur that the Chickasaw Nation should not have been allowed to open the RiverStar Casino (l.) in Terral, Oklahoma, less...

Published April 15, 2019

Rhode Island to Fight Mashpee Trust Bill

Rhode Island sent one of its top attorneys to argue before a congressional committee that a bill that would put land into trust for a Massachusetts tribe would harm...

Published April 15, 2019

Florida Budget Excludes Seminole Payments

The session ends May 3 but that may be too late for Florida lawmakers to renegotiate a Seminole gaming compact. The provision requiring the tribe to pay $350 million...

Published April 15, 2019

North Carolina Gambling Scene Could Change

The North Carolina Senate passed a bill allowing sports betting and horseracing simulcasts at the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians' two casinos. Meanwhile the tribe is fighting a bill...

Published April 15, 2019

Gaming Tribes Warm to Social Games

Long very cool toward social gaming, gaming tribes are now warming to the trend that commercial casinos have been embracing. Once they do they are happy they did it,...

Published April 8, 2019

South Dakota Tribe Adds Slots

Under an amended Class III gaming compact between the state of South Dakota and the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, the tribe can increase slot-machine offerings from 750 to 1,000 at...

Published April 8, 2019

Harrah’s Cherokee Wants Arena Naming Right

U.S. Cellular's name could be coming off the downtown arena (l.) in Asheville, North Carolina, if high bidder Harrah's Cherokee Casino wins the contract. Harrah's Cherokee offered a 5-year,...

Published April 8, 2019

Judge Orders Another Look for Ponca Tribe Casino

The National Indian Gaming Commission has been ordered by a federal judge to reexamine the process that it used to authorize a casino (l.) by the Nebraska-based Ponca Tribe...

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California Coastal Commission Could Object to Tribal Proposal

The California Coast Commission appears on a collision course with the Bureau of Indian Affairs over a proposed hotel by the Trinidad Rancheria. The hotel would be built near...

Published April 8, 2019

Tribes Win Decision in New Mexico

New Mexico lost a lawsuit in which it claimed six tribes owed more than $60 million for "free play" at their casinos. U.S. Judge Kirtan Khalsa ruled the state...

Published April 8, 2019

Committee to Vote on Mashpee Bill

A House committee will bring the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act to a vote this week. The land would put land for the Massachusetts into trust, allowing the...

Published April 8, 2019

Tribe Fights Texas’s Efforts to Shut Casino

Texas is close to winning its legal battle to close the Alabama-Coushatta tribe’s Naskila Gaming casino (l.) in East Texas. The tribe is fighting back by trying to drum...

Published April 8, 2019

Supremes Uphold Washington Tribe’s Rights

The rights of the Indians of the Yakama Reservation to transport fuel on state highways without paying a duty to Washington have been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court....

Published April 1, 2019

Washington Casino Begins Massive Expansion

A Washington tribe, the Stillaguamish, has begun a $60 million expansion. The project will add 300,000 square feet to the casino.

Published April 1, 2019

RI Lawmakers Oppose Wampanoag Bill

Rhode Island Reps. David Cicilline (l.) and James Langevin vow to vote against a bill that would put land for a Massachusetts tribe into trust. One reason is because...

Published April 1, 2019

N.C. Casino Expected to be “Game Changer”

Two tribes in North Carolina are jousting over whether one of them, the Catawba Nation of North Carolina, should be able to put land into trust near Kings Mountain....

Published April 1, 2019

Sycuan Holds Hotel Grand Opening

The newly branded Sycuan Casino Resort held a ribbon-cutting last week. The expanded property includes a 12-story hotel, a lazy river pool feature, and many new upscale restaurants. It...

Published April 1, 2019