This is the place to explore breaking events and important news about the casino of North America. While there may are 23 separate countries on the continent, you will find most of them covered in our Caribbean Casino News section. While some news from Mexico will appear here, most of the articles about casinos and regulatory happenings in this section are about the Canadian and US industries. The U.S.A. has more casinos than any other place on earth, so most of the articles in this category are about them.
The U.S. and Mexico are organized by states while Canada is organized by provinces and territories. In the U.S. and Canada, we have given all Tribal and First Nation news the same weighting as if they were a single state within their respective countries.
This section provides a broad overview of all casino news in North America and the articles are always cross-referenced with more specific information about the subject matter.
More than a month ahead of schedule, Resorts World Catskills will open the doors to its billion-dollar casino resort at 8am on February 8, 2018, with a Grand Opening celebration scheduled for May this year, acc...
The Resorts World Catskills casino is on track to open this February, offering visitors a 100,000-square foot gaming floor, featuring 2,150 slot machines and 130 table games. The property includes a 5-Star/5-Di...
The real estate investment trust (REIT) established in 2016 by American casino giant MGM Resorts International is reportedly offering to fully purchase the counterpart that manages some 20 gaming properties own...
In Florida, one person reportedly died while around 14 others were injured on Sunday afternoon after a wooden shuttle boat taking passengers to the offshore Tropical Breeze Casino in the Gulf of Mexico caught f...
In northern California, the Karuk Tribe has reportedly revealed that its new Rain Rock Casino is due to open outside the small town of Yreka next month offering a collection of some 349 video slot machines alon...
Indiana’s first Native American owned and operated casino, Four Winds South Bend, opens to the public today at 4pm EST. The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indian’s latest gaming venture is located at 3300 Prairie R...
During 2017, casinos in Nevada generated $26.2 billion in total gambling revenue, breaking a 2007 record set in the Silver State prior to the recession that began in December that year. Last was the second cons...
In California, the proposal from the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe to build a $29 million casino on an off-reservation site near the small city of Ridgecrest reportedly took another step last week after the federally...
Envisioning a positive outcome to the Christie v NCAA case currently being considered by the United States Supreme Court, sportsbetting solutions innovator SBTech has announced the signing of a strategic partne...
After announcing a little over a week ago that it is hoping to hire up to 75 part-time dealers, Jack Cincinnati Casino has now reportedly revealed that it also wants to employ a further 40 people in order to fi...
Online gambling is very successful in the state of New Jersey. Figures released just last week show that the casinos in Atlantic City were able to earn $245 million in 2017, which is an increase of close to 25%...
The seven casinos in Atlantic City had a successful 2017 with aggregated land-based gross gaming revenues increasing by some 0.3% year-on-year to reach just over $2.41 billion despite the cumulative figure for ...
The Nevada Gaming Control Board will soon have its first woman chair as Gov. Brian Sandoval has chosen state Sen. Becky Harris (pictured) R-Las Vegas to replace former Chairman A.G. Burnett, who on Dec. 22 step...
Boston-based daily fantasy sports contest provider, DraftKings, Inc., recently announced that it has embarked upon an aggressive hiring campaign that the company expects will increase its size by 75 percent wit...
An Esports Arena has been in the works for some time in Las Vegas, via the Luxor Casino property. Last year it was announced that MGM Resorts International and Allied Esports had created a new partnership to br...