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.
The newest casino and hotel facility in the state of Kansas is less than one month away from opening. Officials of the Kansas Crossing Casino & Hotel have announced that the facility has scheduled its grand...
The Wisconsin Winnebago Tribe, now most well-known as the Ho-Chunk Nation, has responded to numerous claims from the rival Stockbridge-Munsee Band Of Mohican Indians and defended the legality of a key part of i...
The Shawnee Tribe's plan to build the Golden Mesa Casino near Guymon, Oklahoma has progressed at an unprecedented pace as the Governor of the state has given the tribe approval to build, completing a two-step p...
A recently inked multi-year contract for ticket vending machines has been declared void by a Leon County Circuit Court judge who ruled that the Florida Lottery failed to secure legislative approval prior to the...
In Connecticut, the long-running effort by MGM Resorts International to stop the passage of proposed legislation that would allow the state to open a third tribal casino took another turn yesterday after the fi...
After officially opening its casino to bumper crowds on February 8, the Rivers Casino And Resort Schenectady has held a special ceremony to inaugurate its Splash Spa facility.
The $330 million upstate New Yo...
Maryland’s six casinos brought in big money for the state last month as revenue totaled $128.7 million compared to February 2016 when revenue was recorded at $93.2 million, an increase of 38 percent.
The fig...
After revealing in November that it intended to conduct up to two independent market studies concerning the viability of a casino for the Linn County city of Cedar Rapids, the Iowa Racing And Gaming Commission ...
Texas is one of a handful of states in the US that has continued to shy away from casino gambling, with a long-standing ban on such activities in place. Now it seems one Representative of the state would like t...
After breaking ground on its replacement Soboba Casino in southern California late last month, the Soboba Band Of Luiseno Indians has now announced that it expects the new 729,000 sq ft facility to be open by t...
A south Florida sportsbetting advisor who had claimed to be “the sports consultant to the stars” has reportedly been sentenced to serve eight years in prison after pleading guilty in September to five federal c...
The Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe announced today that it intends to withhold a revenue sharing payment of $923,000 from the State of Wisconsin as the tribe believes the state has violated their Tribal/State gaming ...
American casino giant MGM Resorts International has reportedly emerged as the mysterious party that last week entered into talks with rival Las Vegas Sands Corporation about the possibility of purchasing the Sa...
Editor's note 3/08/2017: This article has been updated to convey a message from Wynn Resorts' Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Michael Weaver, that contrary to what MGC Chairman Stephen Cr...
In January, reports surfaced that lawmakers in Illinois were going to consider a casino gambling expansion that would raise much-needed revenues for the state. Lawmakers are struggling to find a way to create r...