Our Casino News section is where you will find breaking news and updates on important developments as they unfold. Look to this section to learn what is happening today and beyond with casino proposals, project updates, openings, expansion projects, closures, and even casino cruise ships. We cover the entire world in this section with the latest news front and center. As new articles are published, they take the top positions.
Stay on top exciting new prospects or follow along as controversies bubble up or the tug of wars develop. Often you'll see casino project updates appear in another section as well when lawsuits and litigation rear their heads. And sometimes you can follow a proposal through all of its steps from concept to licensing to the grand opening announcement and celebration. Looking for a topping out ceremony? This is the place!
Most casinos don't last forever. Sometimes they'll move from the river to land, they might be imploded to make room for something fresh and new, or what may have seemed like a great concept just can't make the numbers and closes after a year. Look for breaking and sometimes sad news about casino closures in this section.
Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino complex located in Santa Fe, New Mexico was opened to the public August 12 but you haven't missed the grand opening celebration. That will begin on September 3 with the off...
Many online gamblers are chewing their nails over the news that Paypal is opening its payment records to perusal by the US Internal Revenue Service. Ostensibly the IRS is looking for those who have hidden a...
Contract negotiations started July 8th at the Isle Casino in Pompano Beach, Florida after the workers secured affiliation with Unite Here on June 11th after an almost year long struggle to unionize. The negotia...
At the beginning of the month, Boyd Gaming Corp. announced that they were suspending work for up to a year on The Echelon, a $4.8 billion dollar complex in Las Vegas. Ground had been broken on the project last ...
Eighteen months ago Caesar's Indiana started a renovation project to transform the riverboat into a whole new casino. The characteristic Roman heads were replaced by golden horseshoes to represent the new face ...
Harrah's Entertainment and Penn National Gaming submitted to questions about their proposed casinos in two different sites in Kansas on July 11th in a Belle Plaine High School auditorium that included over four...
The economic downturn in the United States has had its impact on the casino industry there. Las Vegasand Atlantic City, traditionally the leaders in the US market, have taken big hits financially. Stalled expan...
Casinos Austria International (CAI) opened it's latest casino on July 29 with a official opening ceremony and reception complete with local dignitaries, gaming authority representatives and select guests. The G...
Seventeen people have been arrested on charges relating to illegal gambling in the Philadelphia and Delaware County area. The investigation started in February of 2002 when a man was brought in on bookmaking ch...
The National Indian Gaming Commission has issued a warning to the Soboba Indian tribe that it could ultimately be forced to close their casino on their reservation in Riverside County, California, if violence c...
William J. Yung III has officially stepped down as CEO of Tropicana Entertainment Holding LLC amidst outcries demanding his removal by creditors and bondholders. Scott Butera, who's been serving as president of...
Although tribal gaming revenues was down considerably over previous years, revenues still grew by about 5% nationally. This is phenomenal in relationship to Las Vegas which increased less than 2% for 2007. In a...
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is promoting a proposal to build what he billed as an "entertainment complex" near the Suvarabhumi Airport where it is believed that it would attract more business to eastern Ban...
Table Trac has announced a contract with the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes for installation of Table Trac's casino management systems at four of the tribes' casino properties. Table Trac is a patented real-time m...
BLB Investors LLC who is behind the Twin Rivers Casino in Rhode Island is in financial woes and asking the state to help out with a lower required contribution. Right now they contribute 0.61 out of every dolla...