California Gaming Tribes Create 3,000 Jobs

Southern California’s gaming tribes have become hot job generating engines. Six tribes are in the midst or beginning expansion programs that are creating a total of 6,000 jobs or...

Published February 5, 2018

Pechanga Buys Golf Course

The Pechanga Resort & Casino has long been considered the largest Indian casino and resort in California. The purchase last week of the 305-acre Temecula Creek Inn Golf Course,...

Published February 5, 2018

Aqua Caliente Band Plans Third Casino

The Agua Caliente Band of California has taken steps that will culminate in its third casino in the Coachella Valley (Agua Caliente casino at left). It has applied to...

Published February 5, 2018

Blackjack, Poker Debut At Seminole Casino in Florida

Seminole Casino Brighton in Florida recently opened a new 750 square foot pit area, offering five blackjack tables and a 3-card poker table. The non-smoking slots area also was...

Published February 5, 2018

Wilton Gaming Compact Published

The publishing of a gaming compact in the Federal Register is usually the final step before a tribe can legally build a casino. However, California’s Wilton Rancheria’s proposal for...

Published February 5, 2018

Washington Tribe Plans Expansion

Washington’s Nisqually Red Wind Casino plans to expand its gaming operations near Olympia. It plans to add a hotel and convention center to its existing property.

Published February 5, 2018

Chumash Tribe Puts It In Writing: No Gaming

A California tribe wants to make it crystal clear that it has no intention of putting a casino on 1,400 acres it is asking Congress to put into trust....

Published February 5, 2018

Idaho Tribes Cut Ties to Lobbying Firm

Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock Tribes have decided not to renew a contract with the Boise lobbying firm of Strategies 360. They made the change because the firm recently filed a ballot...

Published February 5, 2018

Thunder Valley Gives Peek of $56 Million Upgrade

Thunder Valley Casino Resort is nearing to completion of $56 million in upgrades that include a new poker room and the conversion of an existing poker room into a...

Published February 5, 2018

Grand Casino Mille Lacs Serves Beer, Wine

Grand Casino Mille Lacs in Onamia, Minnesota recently began serving beer and wine. The property had been dry since it opened in 1991. General Manager Tracy Sam said the...

Published February 5, 2018

Act Would Exempt Tribes From NLRA

A bill that would exempt Indian businesses from the National Labor Relations Act has passed the House. Opponents promise a robust fight in the U.S. Senate.

Published January 29, 2018

Zinke Approves Shawnee’s Land-Trust Application

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke (l.) approved the Shawnee Tribe's land-trust application, moving forward the tribe's proposal to build a casino in Guymon, Oklahoma, 370 miles from...

Published January 29, 2018

Tribes Insist East Windsor Casino on Track

The Pequot and Mohegan tribes of Connecticut insist that their $300 million casino for East Windsor is moving along. However, it would be hard to identify a part that...

Published January 29, 2018

Nomadic Sues Mystic Lake Over Cancellation

Mystic Lake Casino unexpectedly canceled its deal with Nomadic Entertainment, whereby Nomadic would build a temporary, 9,500-seat nightclub and present name entertainers before the Super Bowl. Casino officials said...

Published January 29, 2018

KBIC Delays Ojibwa Casino Projects

Due to septic system and electricity cost increases, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community delayed the completion of renovations and expansions at its Ojibwa Casinos in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Marquette...

Published January 29, 2018

Six Virginia Tribes To Receive Federal Recognition

Six Virginia tribes, some including descendants of Pocahontas' (l.) Powhatan tribe, will be federally recognized under the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2017,...

Published January 29, 2018

Wilton Gaming Compact, Eight Others, Published

The tribal state gaming compact between the Wilton Rancheria and the state of California has been published in the Federal Register. It is the next step in building a...

Published January 29, 2018

Downstream Brews On-Site Craft Beers

Downstream Crafted Brewing Company recently introduced two site-produced craft beers at Downstream Casino Resort in Quapaw, Oklahoma. Computers run the small brewing system in a 120 square foot space...

Published January 29, 2018

California Casino Celebrates 30th Anniversary

Table Mountain Casino (l.), located in the central part of the Golden State, just finished a year of celebrating 30 years in business. It grew from a small bingo...

Published January 29, 2018

Washington Casino Plans $60 Million Expansion

The Stillaguamish Tribe of Arlington, Washington last week held a ground breaking for a $60 million expansion of its Angel of the Winds Casino (l.). The event was attended...

Published January 29, 2018