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.
Changes are afoot in regards to the World Series of Poker brand. As the WSOP gears up for the 48th running of the ever-popular poker tournament series, a few changes have been announced. A new four-year broadca...
The Tohono O’odham Nation and the state of Arizona have announced that a lawsuit settlement will soon allow the tribe to offer full-fledged RNG slot machines and blackjack gambling at their Desert Diamond Casin...
The Cosmopolitan Of Las Vegas has become the latest Las Vegas casino to begin charging patrons for parking with The Blackstone Group-owned property reportedly revealing that the move was necessary due to simila...
March was a good month for gambling in the United States, as data shows the industry as a whole nationwide has been able to see an increase in gaming revenues year-over-year by almost 7% with a total of $3.7 bi...
In Nevada, legislators are reportedly set to launch an official inquiry tomorrow that will seek to discern whether the western state’s Republican attorney general had acted improperly on behalf of giant America...
April was an extremely good month for some of the twelve casinos in Pennsylvania as the venues recorded a 1.4% rise in aggregated gross gaming revenues to just over $285.24 million.
According to official fig...
In Connecticut, slot revenues at the giant Mohegan Sun reportedly increased in April for a second consecutive month while takings from the machines at the nearby Foxwoods Resort Casino declined when compared wi...
The federal government’s stance on a proposal from the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation to open a commercial casino in northern Connecticut has reportedly not changed de...
In Massachusetts, the Plainridge Park Casino reportedly experienced its third-best month in April as its collection of some 1,250 slots recorded a 7.5% increase year-on-year in gross gaming revenues to stand at...
The Rideau Carleton Raceway in Canada's capital city of Ottawa Ontario is about to get a big makeover that will include a hotel, an entertainment venue for concerts, and hundreds of new jobs thanks to an agreem...
The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe Of Texas was reportedly in court last week to again defend its right to offer Class II gaming at its Naskila Gaming venue located some 80 miles northeast of the city of Houston.
A...
The seaside city of Miami Beach, Florida won’t be home to casinos any time soon after the city commission voted unanimously in a special session on Friday to approve two ordinances that would ban any type of ga...
A measure that would help to fill an estimated $878 million hole in the upcoming fiscal year’s budget was shot down by an Oklahoma Senate budget committee on Friday.
Tribal gaming in Oklahoma would have seen...
In an attempt to stop the perceived proliferation of video gambling machine parlors, officials in the Illinois village of Island Lake have reportedly passed a one-year moratorium on the issuing of any new opera...
NetEnt Americas LLC has been approved by the Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch (GPEB), British Columbia’s gaming regulator, as supplier to the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC), the province’s only...