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.
A judge is being asked by a labor union that represents workers at the Ameristar Casino located in East Chicago to review the Indiana Gaming Commission’s approval last month of a plan by Pinnacle Entertainment ...
The Mohegan Sun and Mashantucket Pequots tribes in Connecticut joined forces to establish MMCT, a new venture that was focused on setting up a third 'satellite' casino in the state with a bid to compete with th...
Las Vegas-based LBO casino operator Red Rock Resorts (RRR) is scheduled to price its initial public offering (IPO) today and could raise $572.25 million, which would make it the second-largest IPO this year, tr...
Casino operator MGM Resorts International has established the MGM Growth Properties LLC subsidiary to handle ten of its properties including The Mirage and Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The new publicly traded rea...
The Washington State Gambling Commission has hired New Jersey-based consultant Spectrum Gaming Group to prepare an economic market study into gambling in the western state. The regulator revealed that the repor...
The Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota has a new Class III gaming compact, the first awarded since voters approved gaming expansion in the state, .
According to a notice published Friday in the Federal Regis...
The TropicanaCasino brand is the online gaming services option provided by the Tropicana Casino of Atlantic City, who recently partnered with NetEnt, a developer and supplier of online gaming content based in S...
It took a great deal of effort for the Desert Diamond West Valley Casino and Resort to open in December of 2015, after the Tohono O’odham Nation faced opposition, both of the political and legal sense. Despite ...
Mississippi casino revenue fell from $198 million in March 2015 to $188 million in March 2016, after Gulf Coast properties such as Harrah’s Gulf Coast and Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis recorded a slowdown of 4...
Officials from the New York State Gaming Commission will tour the site of the coming Montreign Resort Casino in the Catskills Mountains today after operator Empire Resorts paid the required $51 million licensin...
This week, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission will decide if the state’s third and final gambling license will be awarded to Neil Bluhm, a Chicago casino developer looking to build a $677 million resort at the...
Culinary Workers Union Local 226 held a protest outside the Trump International Hotel to let their boss Donald Trump know that Las Vegas was “a union town.” The Thursday rally was quiet for approximately an hou...
Glenn Straub is the new owner of the Revel Casino of Atlantic City, a venue that has struggled since it creation. Having been closed since September of 2014, the venue may now reopen, but not in the way one wou...
The Stratosphere Las Vegas is considered to be one of the iconic buildings in Las Vegas with its well known tower, which stands at 1,149 feet tall. The late Bob Stupak was a promoter, poker player and visionary...
On Thursday, Paradise, Nevada-based Boyd Gaming Corp. announced it had reached an agreement to purchase the Aliante Casino & Hotel located in North Las Vegas for $380 million.
Acquisition of the nearly 8...