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.
FIFA lost support Friday, June 12, 2015, from both the Vatican and Interpol due to fraud investigations. Interpol stated it would no longer take funding from FIFA, which is supposed to stop match fixing and oth...
Delaware lawmakers are taking no pity on three casinos in the state that say they are being cannibalized by out of state competition.
Senate Bill 30 was introduced in January to give Dover Downs, Harrington ...
A grand jury in Clark County Nevada has indicted a gambler who lost half a million dollars playing table games at the Downtown Grand Las Vegas Hotel & Casino in January last year. Mark Allen Johnston claime...
Although plans for a new $180 million casino near Muskegon, Michigan (pictured) are still in the approval process, the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians is breaking ground Monday on an expansion and renovatio...
On Wednesday the Glendale City Council voted to end its arena agreement with the Arizona Coyotes hockey team. On April 1, 2016 the MGM – AEG Arena will open on the Las Vegas Strip with enough seating for 17,500...
On Thursday the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision that kept the Onslow County sheriff from enforcing laws banning video poker gaming. The decision was issued a month and a half after ...
The Kansas Lottery Gaming Facility Review Board met with consultants on Wednesday to hear testimony with regards to three casino proposals. The board must choose one proposal based on the amount of revenue each...
Atlantic City is struggling to earn enough revenues from casino gambling and legislators have been trying for some time to rebuild the gaming area of New Jersey. On Thursday, the NJ State Assembly gave their ap...
American Indian tribes have long contended that business conducted on tribal lands is sovereign and not subject to federal labor laws. Last week on June 4th the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seemed to a...
NetEnt will be operating in the United States for the very first time after signing an agreement with bwin.party and Borgata brands of New Jersey. This is the first agreement for the Swedish iGaming solutions p...
Breaking his own world record for most World Series of Poker bracelets earned, Phil Hellmuth is destined to go down in the poker history books. After holding steady at 13 WSOP bracelet wins, the poker pro final...
When Las Vegas Sands Chairman and billionaire Sheldon Adelson decided to terminate his Sands China CEO Steve Jacobs in 2010, he had no idea of the repercussions that decision would bring. Jacobs took Adelson an...
Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort applied for bankruptcy in 2014 but was bailed out by billionaire Carl Icahn who has a lot of experience working with bankrupt casinos and turning them around. The T...
On Monday, Senator Linda Greenstein of New Jersey, along with Senator Bob Smith and Christopher Bateman, introduced amendment SCR173, seeking a casino to be placed in north Jersey as well as central Jersey. Mid...
The Pinoleville Pomo Nation runs its business operations from Ukiah, California and derives most of its revenue from its casino operations. The tribe had plans to set up a massive marijuana farm that would span...