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 Washington State Gambling Commission has hired New Jersey-based consultant Spectrum Gaming Group to prepare an economic market study into gambling in the western state. The regulator revealed that the repor...
The Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota has a new Class III gaming compact, the first awarded since voters approved gaming expansion in the state, .
According to a notice published Friday in the Federal Regis...
The TropicanaCasino brand is the online gaming services option provided by the Tropicana Casino of Atlantic City, who recently partnered with NetEnt, a developer and supplier of online gaming content based in S...
It took a great deal of effort for the Desert Diamond West Valley Casino and Resort to open in December of 2015, after the Tohono O’odham Nation faced opposition, both of the political and legal sense. Despite ...
Mississippi casino revenue fell from $198 million in March 2015 to $188 million in March 2016, after Gulf Coast properties such as Harrah’s Gulf Coast and Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis recorded a slowdown of 4...
Officials from the New York State Gaming Commission will tour the site of the coming Montreign Resort Casino in the Catskills Mountains today after operator Empire Resorts paid the required $51 million licensin...
This week, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission will decide if the state’s third and final gambling license will be awarded to Neil Bluhm, a Chicago casino developer looking to build a $677 million resort at the...
Culinary Workers Union Local 226 held a protest outside the Trump International Hotel to let their boss Donald Trump know that Las Vegas was “a union town.” The Thursday rally was quiet for approximately an hou...
Glenn Straub is the new owner of the Revel Casino of Atlantic City, a venue that has struggled since it creation. Having been closed since September of 2014, the venue may now reopen, but not in the way one wou...
The Stratosphere Las Vegas is considered to be one of the iconic buildings in Las Vegas with its well known tower, which stands at 1,149 feet tall. The late Bob Stupak was a promoter, poker player and visionary...
On Thursday, Paradise, Nevada-based Boyd Gaming Corp. announced it had reached an agreement to purchase the Aliante Casino & Hotel located in North Las Vegas for $380 million.
Acquisition of the nearly 8...
The state of Iowa has seen the casino industry change, with riverboat casinos moving to land, which has brought the promise of new jobs at gaming venues. Rhythm City Casino and the Isle of Capri are hiring, hel...
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown told Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and her administration to be prepared for strong opposition to a downtown casino, negotiate for revenue and local hiring preferences, and to embrace ...
On April 27th, the Great Canadian Gaming Corporation will be holding a groundbreaking ceremony for a new casino in the Belleville area, Shoreline Casino Belleville. The new venue will be part of an East Gaming ...
According to an email from the Michigan governor’s office on Friday, Governor Rick Snyder had yet to receive the proposal from the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) regarding the use of the former Marquette ...