The United States has more casinos than any other country on the planet. There are nearly 300 gambling properties in Las Vegas alone. World Casino News covers the changing casino landscape across the country by highlighting changes in gambling law & legislation, announcing casino proposals, providing project updates as they occur, and reporting on casinos that have been sold or slated for closure along with every other important happening.
While Tribal Gaming has its own section in the news you will find coverage in this section for all 28 states that have compacts with the tribes as well. Las Vegas and Atlantic City get a lot of coverage here but we also keep you informed about casinos in the heartland and along the Gulf Coast. We followed the upstate New York casinos closely from the siting process to grand openings and will continue to provide financial updates as well as breaking news when the next round of licensing gets underway. You'll read it here first when New York City welcomes their first full-scale, non-lottery casino.
In Florida, one person reportedly died while around 14 others were injured on Sunday afternoon after a wooden shuttle boat taking passengers to the offshore Tropical Breeze Casino in the Gulf of Mexico caught f...
In northern California, the Karuk Tribe has reportedly revealed that its new Rain Rock Casino is due to open outside the small town of Yreka next month offering a collection of some 349 video slot machines alon...
Indiana’s first Native American owned and operated casino, Four Winds South Bend, opens to the public today at 4pm EST. The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indian’s latest gaming venture is located at 3300 Prairie R...
During 2017, casinos in Nevada generated $26.2 billion in total gambling revenue, breaking a 2007 record set in the Silver State prior to the recession that began in December that year. Last was the second cons...
In California, the proposal from the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe to build a $29 million casino on an off-reservation site near the small city of Ridgecrest reportedly took another step last week after the federally...
Envisioning a positive outcome to the Christie v NCAA case currently being considered by the United States Supreme Court, sportsbetting solutions innovator SBTech has announced the signing of a strategic partne...
After announcing a little over a week ago that it is hoping to hire up to 75 part-time dealers, Jack Cincinnati Casino has now reportedly revealed that it also wants to employ a further 40 people in order to fi...
Online gambling is very successful in the state of New Jersey. Figures released just last week show that the casinos in Atlantic City were able to earn $245 million in 2017, which is an increase of close to 25%...
The seven casinos in Atlantic City had a successful 2017 with aggregated land-based gross gaming revenues increasing by some 0.3% year-on-year to reach just over $2.41 billion despite the cumulative figure for ...
The Nevada Gaming Control Board will soon have its first woman chair as Gov. Brian Sandoval has chosen state Sen. Becky Harris (pictured) R-Las Vegas to replace former Chairman A.G. Burnett, who on Dec. 22 step...
Boston-based daily fantasy sports contest provider, DraftKings, Inc., recently announced that it has embarked upon an aggressive hiring campaign that the company expects will increase its size by 75 percent wit...
An Esports Arena has been in the works for some time in Las Vegas, via the Luxor Casino property. Last year it was announced that MGM Resorts International and Allied Esports had created a new partnership to br...
In Nevada, Class II gaming machine developer AGS is reportedly set to grow after state regulators overwhelmingly approved its petition to launch an as yet unscheduled initial public offering via the New York St...
Located at I-8 and Willows Road east of San Diego, the Viejas Casino & Resort, owned by the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, will open a new luxury tower, Willows Hotel & Spa, to the public on February ...
The coming twelve months could reportedly see lawmakers in up to 30 American states propose new legislation that would legalize sportsbetting with around eleven of these measures likely to be successful pending...