Ho-Chunk’s Beloit Casino Advances

The Ho-Chunk Nation's proposed $405 million Beloit, Wisconsin casino resort is advancing at the federal level, with a public hearing on a draft environmental impact statement on December 11....

Published November 19, 2018

So Cal Tribes Contributed $160 Million to Campaigns

Tribes based in San Bernardino and Riverside counties in California contributed about $160 million to a variety of state and federal campaigns in the last decade. The figures were...

Published November 12, 2018

Lawsuit Dims Carter Lake Casino Celebration

The Prairie Flower Casino opened recently in Carter Lake, Iowa. But a lawsuit against the National Indian Gaming Commission and the U.S. Interior Department by the city of Council...

Published November 12, 2018

North Carolina Tribe Announces Largest Per Capita Distribution

Each of the 15,779 members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina will receive $7,007 next month, the largest single-period per capita distribution in the tribe's...

Published November 12, 2018

California Management Compact Approved by NIGC

The National Indian Gaming Commission October 31 gave the stamp of approval of the management contract by Boyd Gaming for the Wilton Rancheria. The tribe plans to build a...

Published November 12, 2018

Moody’s Contemplates Mohegan Rating Downgrade

Moody’s could soon downgrade Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment (MGE) the development arm of the Mohegan tribe of Connecticut, which owns and operates the Mohegan Sun casino. Moody’s says it...

Published November 12, 2018

Connecticut Town Updated on Tribal Casino

MMCT Venture, the joint authority of Connecticut’s two gaming tribes, are looking at various options for getting the casino they would like to build in East Windsor back on...

Published November 12, 2018

Pala Casino Finishes Expansion, Renovation

Pala Casino Spa & Resort has completed a year of expansion and renovation that includes new wall coverings, a 10,000 square-foot gaming area and 300 slots and a 15,000...

Published November 5, 2018

Oregon’s Governor Reaches Compact With Coquilles

The governor of Oregon, Kate Brown (l.), has agreed to a tribal state gaming compact with the Coquille Tribe for a small casino in Medford. Critics say the governor...

Published November 5, 2018

Seattle-Area Casino Offers $1 Million to Make Road Safer

Brian Decorah (l.), the CEO of Snoqualmie Casino, has offered to pay $1 million so the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) can act quickly to do an assessment...

Published November 5, 2018

Prairie Flower Casino Opens In Iowa

Physically located in Nebraska but officially a part of Iowa, the Ponca Tribe's Prairie Flower Casino (l.) in Carter Lake, Iowa opened November 1. The 9,500 square foot Prairie...

Published November 5, 2018

SoCal Casinos in Complicated Expansion Chess Game

Southern California’s Indian casinos are engaged in a complicated series of expansions, with one eye on each other and the other on the market. They are trying to integrate...

Published November 5, 2018

Aquinnah Tribe Still Working on Casino

The Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe has once again assured local residents that it intends to build a Class II casino in the town of Aquinnah, on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The...

Published October 27, 2018

Yuba County Casino May Generate Economic Activity

When the Hard Rock Fire Mountain Casino and Hotel is completed in 15 months in Northern California’s Yuba County, it is expected to generate economic activity. The casino is...

Published October 27, 2018

Mohegan Gaming To Manage Paragon

A subsidiary of Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment signed a 5-year contract with the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana to manage gaming, entertainment and hospitality services at Paragon Casino Resort (l.)...

Published October 27, 2018

Bill to Rescue Massachusetts Tribe Subject of Battle

Lobbyists in the nation’s capital are playing a large part this year as Congress mulls the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act. The act would allow the tribe to...

Published October 27, 2018

Connecticut, Tribes Try Again in Federal Court

The gaming tribes of Connecticut and the state have filed an amended lawsuit to try to force the Department of the Interior to issue a ruling on an amended...

Published October 27, 2018

Opponents Want to Force Mashpees to File Legal Briefs

Opponents of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe don’t want the tribe and Chairman Cedric Cromwell (l.) to be able to continue to put off the appeal of the federal ruling...

Published October 22, 2018

New Mexico Tribal Casino Becomes First to Open a Sports Book

New Mexico has joined five other states in offering sports betting. However, it is a tribal casino, Santa Ana Star Casino (l.), rather than the state, that has started...

Published October 22, 2018

Lawsuit Dismissal Bogs Down Connecticut Casino

Connecticut’s gaming tribes are trying to find a way to move forward on their third, satellite casino (l.) in East Windsor. While one lawsuit, against the Department of the...

Published October 22, 2018