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 Idaho Supreme Court has determined that the state has to pay the Coeur d’Alene Tribe a little more than half of the legal fees they requested after besting Idaho in a battle over slot-like machines competin...
On Thursday representatives of Governor Brian Sandoval’s Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee were presented with the most detailed look to date of plans for the $2.3 billion expansion and renovatio...
Representative Jason Chaffetz is surely making Sheldon Adelson happy with the announcement that the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will be holding a hearing next week to d...
MGM Resorts International is looking to continue its fight against the Connecticut-based Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes regarding their pursuit of additional casino developments in the state. The compan...
On Thursday a Suffolk County Superior Court Judge dismissed the city of Boston’s lawsuit that attempted to stop construction of Wynn Resorts $1.7 billion casino being developed in neighboring Everett.
The ru...
One of downtown Vegas’s popular gaming destinations is scheduled for a multi-million-dollar face lift, according to an announcement on Thursday by Boyd Gaming Corp.
According to Bill Boyd, executive chairman...
No lucrative exit deal is in the cards for a southern New Jersey university’s former president who failed in his attempts to transform a shutdown Atlantic casino into a satellite campus.
On Wednesday a separ...
A debate between presidential candidates is set to take place in Las Vegas in about two weeks. The American Gaming Association (AGA) has created a questionnaire for the candidates to fill out. The results will ...
The contract between the state of West Virginia and lottery officials has been finalized, with the new video lottery system ready to be integrated into the lottery of the state. John Myers, the acting director ...
Yesterday marked the very first day that the Rhode Island casino, Twin River, offered poker gaming options. The Twin River Casino debuted the game of poker just after the noon hour, providing sixteen gaming tab...
The federal government, along with attorneys for Enterprise Rancheria, is requesting a judge to reject the attempts of the Colusa Casino to overturn a decision that allows Enterprise to open a casino in Yuba Co...
Interblock is a luxury gaming manufacturer that recently commissioned a study of electronic table games to be completed by Andrew Jones and Brand Outlook. The study took place in July and August of this year, w...
Plans to build a casino in the Pittsburg area of Kansas have been extended by 90 days for a second time by the Kansas Lottery. The Kansas Crossing Casino was approved by the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission ...
A bill filed by a Republican leader in the Senate would allow casinos in Massachusetts, including Plainridge Park Casino, to expand into online gambling.
Only casinos licensed in the state would be allowed t...
Brookhaven Town and Suffolk County were told by a federal bankruptcy judge on Monday that they must review for approval a video lottery casino proposed by the Suffolk Regional Off Track Betting Corp. for Medfor...