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 Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) tribe owns and operates the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel which is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The tribe recently announced that it plans to add a brand new hot...
Don't count New Jersey out of the sports betting game just yet. This morning the full Third Circuit said it would revisit a 2-1 panel decision that threw out an appeal related to New Jersey's sports betting au...
Friday a jury in Cape May County found a South Jersey man guilty of second-degree bribery of a government official so that he could increase the sale price of an Atlantic City property he was selling.
The re...
Legislators who are opposed to online gambling for the United States have tried relentlessly to see the activity banned. Every time legislators propose measures that would create an overall ban, the legislation...
Since the purchase of the now retired Showboat Casino in Atlantic City, Stockton University has doled out close to $8 million on the property in just short of a year according to records.
After the due dilig...
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The three-member New York Gaming Facility Location Board voted unanimously to recommend a casino license go to Tioga Downs today. The final fate of the application lies with the New York St...
On October 2nd, a circuit court judge ruled that the state of Alabama had no cause to take 1,600 electronic bingo machines from the VictoryLand racetrack in Macon County. The confiscation of the gaming machines...
ESPN previously announced that the sports network would be suspending advertising provided by DraftKings based on the allegations of employee data usage. The company, along with FanDuel, has been accused of all...
Hillary Clinton, who is running for president of the Unites States, stopped at a union rally right in front of Donald Trump’s hotel on the Las Vegas Strip to mock him on the day of the first Democratic presiden...
The Foundation Gaming Group will purchase Vicksburg’s DiamondJacks casino located on the Mississippi River, which the Gulfport-based company has operated since the casino emerged from bankruptcy in 2013, accord...
A tentative agreement was reached on Friday between unionized workers at a casino and two Ontario racetracks and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), according to a statement issued on Sunday.
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To finance their long-awaited Vegas-style casino resort complex, the Cowlitz tribe, located in southwest Washington State, has assumed $485 million debt due in 2020. Moody’s Investors Service has given the proj...
Just days after plans were presented to Mackinaw City officials, the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians are hoping to break ground on their new casino. The tribe would like to begin breaking ground on t...
The large budget deficit is not getting any smaller in Pennsylvania, as lawmakers search for some way out of the continuing debt. Republican officials have been resisting a tax increase to help the budget and a...
According to an exclusive interview, reporters for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) have disclosed that Georgia Governor Nathan Deal might support the legislature’s current casino bill – if the bill’s fea...