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Major demolition began on Tuesday morning in preparation for MGM Resorts International’s $950 million resort casino in downtown Springfield.
It’s almost been a year since photographs were taken with construc...
A compromise over a referendum on casino gambling in North Jersey has been reached by two Democratic legislators, Governor Chris Christie announced on his return to the State House on Monday.
Coming on the e...
Many of Macau’s casinos have accepted the fact that the VIP market segment will most likely never be the same as it was before and have since moved on to focusing on mass market gamblers just as the Macau gover...
The Saratoga Casino and Raceway of New York is planning an expansion that has a price tag of $39.3 million. The venue, located in Saratoga Springs, has been able to secure a $15 million loan for construction fr...
The first of two hotels to be built in north San Jose, California, part of a new casino, hotel and office complex, may don the Hilton name, according to one of the property’s developers.
A 49-table casino, a...
The Mashpee Wampanoag raised their nation’s flag for the first time on their newly designated tribal land on Monday afternoon and celebrated what they are calling the next step towards breaking ground this spri...
The planned acquisition of the developing company of NagaCity Walk by the NagaCorp Ltd has been delayed to the end of 2017. The 18-month delay was revealed by the Cambodian gaming operator and a possible reason...
While Mackinaw City’s first casino was approved in June and is expected to be completed sometime in May on sovereign land of the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians, the Mackinaw City Village Council’s re...
On Thursday, the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, formerly known as the Gun Lake Tribe, announced expansion plans for its 5-year-old Gun Lake Casino in Wayland, Michigan.
While prelimina...
Tilman Fertitta, the owner of the Golden Nugget in Lake Charles, Louisiana, announced on Thursday that by 2013 a 300-room hotel tower would be added to the casino resort.
Construction has already begun for t...
Mashpee Wampanoag tribal lands in Taunton and Mashpee, Massachusetts were officially declared a reservation by the U.S. Department of Interior on Friday.
Under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, first acquire...
Two competing proposals to allow voters to decide whether or not to expand casino gambling beyond Atlantic City, New Jersey will be voted on in their respective chambers Monday. January 11 is the end of this le...
Public information sessions will be held in January for contractors and vendors interested in providing supplies and or services for the company licensed to build the $1.3 billion Montreign Resort Casino in ups...
The proposal to build the Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas was initially submitted in 2002 and over a decade has passed since then but the resort is yet to be completed and continues to be surrounded in controver...
On Wednesday MJC Investments Corp (Manila Jockey Club) announced a ceremonial opening of their new Winford Casino on the ground floor of a 5 star hotel at the site of the former San Lazaro Hippodrome racetrack ...