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.
MMCT Venture has announced the application deadline for the third casino site of Connecticut has been pushed back until the 15th of October to be able to provide more time for towns interested into having a sho...
Billionaire casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson is continuing his fight against a proposal in Florida to legalize medical marijuana.
The 83-year-old casino boss, who is the chairman and chief executive officer of ...
Opponents of the campaign to see two casinos added to the northern portion of New Jersey now have two new allies. Oceanport Mayor Jay Coffey and Borough Council President Joe Irace have decided to join the figh...
In a unanimous vote on Thursday, the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee approved a $750 million public funding proposal for a $1.9 billion NFL stadium in Las Vegas.
The vote is the first step i...
Gaming operators today are starting to look at new ways to approach gaming as the younger demographic are more technology conscious. Individuals in their early 20s to 30s grew up with certain technology and are...
The Plainridge Park Casino opened as slots only casino in Plainridge, Massachusetts during June 2015 and currently enjoys a monopoly in the state as its competitors, the $950 million MGM Resorts Springfield cas...
In New Jersey, official figures from the Division Of Gaming Enforcement show that overall land-based casino win for August dropped by 6.7% year-on-year to $229.78 million while the figure for the eastern state’...
Beginning in mid-October, the Rivers Casino of Schenectady will begin to offer a dealer school course lasting ten weeks. The casino will need to fill 300 dealer positions and are hoping to train individuals dur...
The effort to bring casinos to three counties in Arkansas is reportedly being opposed to the tune of more than $100,000 by the owners of the southern state’s two racetracks that already allow electronic gamblin...
The Aseneskak is a casino located in The Pas, owned by the Manitoba First Nations. The group announced late last month that plans had been created to move the venue to a larger area in the province, relocating ...
Philadelphia based SugarHouse Casino has launched an online gambling site in New Jersey. As was revealed by the operator, the destination would work under Golden Nugget’s gaming license and it will be operated ...
Wild Rose Casinos which operates casinos in Jefferson, Clinton and Emmetsburg has teamed up with developers Hunter Parks and Steve Emerson to propose a boutique casino in Cedar Rapids. This new casino proposal ...
Representatives from the United States Department Of Justice and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) used the recent National AML Conference in Nevada to deliver a strong message on money launderi...
Arizona Assistant State Attorney General Roger Banan has testified under oath that he deliberately destroyed notes resulting from meetings related to the Tohono O’odham casino in Glendale. Under the direction o...
In an interview with Yahoo Finance, billionaire casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson has stated that poker is gambling. Adelson is known as one of the worst enemies of online gambling, thus this statement of his doesn...