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 Strip will get its first W branded hotel by way of a deal between lodging giant Starwood Resorts Worldwide and the SLS Las Vegas. The acquisition could help elevate the financial profile of both the North S...
A union is opposed to the proposed sale of Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.’s casinos to Gaming & Leisure Properties Inc. and at a meeting on Thursday asked the Indiana Gaming Commission to nix the plan, on the ...
On Tuesday, November 10, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman threw down the proverbial gauntlet and instructed daily fantasy sports (DFS) giants DraftKings and FanDuel to cease-and-desist operations in ...
Last week Governor Robert Bentley signed an executive order saying that gambling enforcement should be handled by district attorneys and local sheriffs and on Tuesday he said he believed it would clarify “the r...
With the announcement by Illinois lottery officials that payouts over $600 would be delayed due to the state budget impasse, the lottery ticket sales began to plummet. Ticket sales dropped to the lowest point f...
Station Casinos was founded by Frank Fertitta Jr in 1976 and has built a strong presence in Nevada during the last forty years. The company which is still run by the Fertitta family currently operates 19 casino...
Daily fantasy sports (DFS) operators rarely handle the banking aspects of player deposits and withdrawals in-house. Instead, DFS businesses contract with payment gateways as a financial go-between, and without ...
Caesars Entertainment Corp. took more than a three-quarter billion dollar hit on their third quarter financials due to costs associated with the restructuring of a bankrupt subsidiary, promising nearly $1 billi...
The Twin River Management Group operates several gambling operations in a number of states including Rhode Island, where they have just finished proposing to build a new casino in the Tiverton area, spending $7...
After clarifying the distinction between daily fantasy sports (DFS) and the more traditional, season-long fantasy sports leagues, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that daily fantasy sports ...
Instead of masking the unfinished Fontainebleau Las Vegas that was purchased out of bankruptcy for $150 million in 2010, the billionaire who bought the property is offering up the long-neglected casino-hotel fo...
The Creek Casino Montgomery, soon to be known as the Wind Creek Casino & Hotel Montgomery, has almost completed the new updates, costing the Poarch Band of Creek Indians $65 million. The upgrades of the exp...
A ‘sprawling criminal enterprise’, that is what federal prosecutors are calling a scheme that spanned around the world, with three men accused of stealing data of over 100 million customers from companies, incl...
Joe McKeehen, a 24-year old professional poker player from Pennsylvania never relinquished his lead throughout the entire three-day World Series of Poker’s championship event that netted the winner $7.68 millio...
Re-opening the former Showboat in Atlantic City as a casino is apparently not out of the question, according to new owner Bart Blatstein who in June redeveloped the Boardwalk’s former Pier Shops complex into Th...