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.
The first of two hotels to be built in north San Jose, California, part of a new casino, hotel and office complex, may don the Hilton name, according to one of the property’s developers.
A 49-table casino, a...
The Mashpee Wampanoag raised their nation’s flag for the first time on their newly designated tribal land on Monday afternoon and celebrated what they are calling the next step towards breaking ground this spri...
Daily fantasy sports giants DraftKings and FanDuel have been granted stays by a New York appellate court panel today. The court's action halts a lower court decision earlier that would have ended the companies'...
Dealers at the MGM Gold Strike Casino in Tunica County won’t be voting on unionization just yet, due to charges that federal law was broken by MGM Resorts International while campaigning against union represent...
While Mackinaw City’s first casino was approved in June and is expected to be completed sometime in May on sovereign land of the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians, the Mackinaw City Village Council’s re...
The casinos located in the northwest portion of Indiana continued to do well in 2015, closing out the year with a strong December. With the month’s end, the state saw a gaming revenue total that almost matched ...
Saturday's Powerball drawing didn't produce a $949.8 million winner but that just means the jackpot will roll over and be worth an estimated $1.3 billion for Wednesday's drawing. That is the highest return ever...
The past few years have been hard on the state of Nevada in regards to the casino industry. Having been in the red for several years, the state lost $662 million in 2015 and continues to see a downward trend wh...
On Thursday, the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, formerly known as the Gun Lake Tribe, announced expansion plans for its 5-year-old Gun Lake Casino in Wayland, Michigan.
While prelimina...
Tilman Fertitta, the owner of the Golden Nugget in Lake Charles, Louisiana, announced on Thursday that by 2013 a 300-room hotel tower would be added to the casino resort.
Construction has already begun for t...
A poker tournament from August of last year is causing the Hialeah Park casino major issues due to ‘irregularities’ found in the game. Players participating in the event discovered that the prize pool was short...
Mashpee Wampanoag tribal lands in Taunton and Mashpee, Massachusetts were officially declared a reservation by the U.S. Department of Interior on Friday.
Under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, first acquire...
Governor Rick Scott and the Florida Seminole Tribe finally came to an agreement in regards to gaming in the state, reaching a $3 billion gaming deal. However this deal is currently in jeopardy as the Florida Le...
While major Nevada casino stakeholders have been heavily investing in the emerging Asian gambling markets, one Chinese entrepreneur is betting on the future of electric cars – and investing (to the tune of US $...
The Genting Group’s investment holding and management company, Genting Malaysia Berhad, has acquired full equity interest in Big Apple Regional Center LLC from YMCMHB LLC, a foreign limited liability company, f...