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 Seminole Casino Immokalee opened in 1994 as a bingo parlor and has had several expansions and renovations since then. Now some 20 years later they will be opening the first upscale hotel in the Immokalee ar...
After an initial offer to purchase Pinnacle real estate assets in January, Gaming & Leisure Properties, Inc., has offered another proposal totaling $4.1 billion. The companies failed to come to terms of eng...
On Monday, the Seminole Tribe of Florida released another television campaign to try and urge the state to extend the current gaming compact. The compact between the state and tribe will end on July 31st and th...
Government officials wanted to transform the public square in the city of Cleveland, Ohio and estimated the entire cost to be around $32 million. The proposal faced a lot of opposition and criticism because the...
Atlantic City casinos were expecting a tax relief plan to be approved before the 1st of April allowing them to benefit from a tax break. The tax relief plan was earlier known as the Casino Property Taxation Sta...
Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino Hotel in Elizabeth has temporarily closed their hotel accommodations due to rising water levels in the Ohio River. When it is forecast that the river will rise above 55.5 feet ...
A 2007 casino law in Kansas allows for only 4 casinos to operate within the state and three of those casinos have already been constructed. The Kansas Star Casino in Mulvane; the Hollywood Casino in Kansas City...
Virgin Casino is proud to announce the offering of a 90 Ball Bingo game that is available for online play, one of the first online casinos in the United States to offer real money bingo. Featuring a Bingo game ...
KG Urban Enterprises, a New York development company went all-in when they decided to send in a proposal to construct a $500 million casino on the New Bedford, Massachusetts waterfront. The company spent a lot ...
Donald Trump worked hard to see his name removed from the struggling Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey going as far as filing a lawsuit. However on Monday he struck a deal with billionaire inv...
Leaders of the Seminole Tribe of Florida are considering a new hotel construction for the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino property of Tampa, Florida after gaining approval by the airport authorities to create a 16...
The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (LRBOI) and their chief Larry Romanelli are moving ahead on their plans to build a casino in Fruitport Township, Muskegon County, Michigan. The build has been in the work...
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission approved MGM Resorts International application for the construction of a casino in Springfield back in December 2013. However due to a number of reasons the construction of t...
Any win in a US casino over $1,200 requires a "hand pay" and the filing of form 1099-G for tax purposes. Now the IRS is considering reducing the reporting rules from that number to $600. Gaming advocates do no...
Sands China Ltd. was slapped with minor sanctions by District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez for redacting information from specific documents which were in relation to the Steve Jacobs, (former President of Sands Ch...