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

Marsh May Sponsor ‘Tribe-Friendly’ Measure in Alabama

Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh (l.) is a co-sponsor of state Senator Jim McClendon’s SB130, but Marsh may sponsor a “more tribe-friendly” gaming bill, supposedly to the...

Published April 1, 2019

Interior OK Heats Up Connecticut Gaming Beefs

The nod from the Department of the Interior that their amended tribal state gaming compacts to build a third casino (l.) are approved was given to Connecticut tribes last...

Published April 1, 2019

Casino Del Sol Earns AAA Four Diamond Rating

Casino Del Sol (l.) in Tucson, Arizona has received AAA’s Four Diamond Hotel rating for the eighth consecutive year since its 2011 opening. Owned by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe,...

Published March 25, 2019

Massachusetts Tribe Rejects Slots Parlor Review

The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head rejects any proposals that it subject its Class II casino to review of the local Martha’s Vineyard Commission. The tribe insists the commission...

Published March 25, 2019

Little River Band Casino Comment Period Extended

The Bureau of Indian Affairs extended the public comment period on the Little River Band’s proposed $180 million casino in Muskegon, Michigan. Ogema Larry Romanelli said three other tribes...

Published March 25, 2019

Seminole Compact Could Include Sports Betting

Florida Senate President Bill Galvano (l.), who negotiated the 2010 Seminole Compact, said a new compact could include sports betting, even though a constitutional amendment passed last November gives...

Published March 25, 2019

New Jersey Recognizes Two Native Tribes

New Jersey has restored official recognition for the Powhatan Renape Nation and the Ramapough Lenape Nation. The tribes charged that their recognition had been allowed to lapse under the...

Published March 25, 2019

Massachusetts Tribe Urges House to Fast-track Land Into Trust

A fast tracking of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act is being proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill would put land into trust for the...

Published March 25, 2019

South Carolina Tribe Eyes North Carolina Site

The Catawba tribe in South Carolina applied in 2014 to have land in Kings Mountain, North Carolina taken into federal trust for a casino. But Congress could approve the...

Published March 25, 2019

Pechanga Expands Robot Security Force

The largest casino resort on the West Coast, Pechanga Resort Casino, is boldly going where no casino has gone before. It has deployed friendly robots on its property that...

Published March 18, 2019

Sycuan to Open First Casino Hotel

Two years after breaking ground the San Diego-county based Sycuan Band of Kumeyaay Nation will soon open a $250 expansion. It will include a 300-room hotel, spa, fitness center...

Published March 18, 2019

Town Claims Tribe’s ‘Rights Not Without Limits’

While admitting that the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has won the right to build a casino on its reservation adjacent to the town of Aquinnah on Martha’s...

Published March 18, 2019

Berrey Reviews Arkansas Casino Project

The Saracen Casino Resort in Pine Bluff, Arkansas is taking shape, said Quapaw Tribe Chairman John Berrey. In a presentation, he said the $320 million project could generate $35...

Published March 18, 2019

Armed Dispute Again at Chukchansi Tribe

California’s Chukchansi tribe, owners of the Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino (l.), has another potentially deadly dispute between tribal factions. Five years ago such a clash ended up closing...

Published March 18, 2019

More New Mexico Sports Books

Pojoaque Pueblo’s Buffalo Thunder Casino and Resort (l.) became the second casino in New Mexico to offer sports betting. This is just in time to take wagers for March...

Published March 18, 2019

Bill Would Create Lytton Tribal Homeland

A bill in Congress would put 500 acres into trust in Windsor for the Lytton Rancheria. The tribe would not be allowed to offer gaming there.

Published March 11, 2019