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A push by federal regulators to classify sports betting as a financial product is drawing sharp opposition from tribes, who say it could undermine tribal gaming compacts and redirect billions in revenue.
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The Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians won city approval for a temporary gaming facility in its long-running effort to bring gaming to Vallejo, Calif., even as its larger casino project remains under federal review.
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Four Maine tribes have intervened to defend the state’s new internet gaming law, aiming to preserve a new revenue stream.
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The National Indian Gaming Commission announced Monday that Vice Chair Jeannie Hovland has departed the agency, according to a press release from NIGC. Her resignation is effective immediately.
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A new bipartisan bill in the U.S. Senate takes aim at prediction‑market platforms that lawmakers say are offering sports betting under another name.
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The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana plans to open an eight-story hotel tower at Coushatta Casino Resort in May, adding more than 300 rooms as the tribe expands what it describes as the state’s largest casino resort.
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A proposal by the Menominee Indian Tribe to bring a Hard Rock-branded casino to Kenosha, Wis. has moved closer to approval following a positive environmental assessment by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Wisconsin lawmakers are advancing legislation that would allow tribes to offer statewide mobile sports betting through a “hub-and-spoke” model, despite online wagering otherwise being illegal under state law.
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The Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority is backing Connecticut's efforts to stop prediction market operators from offering what tribal officials call illegal sports betting that violates the tribe's exclusive gaming rights in the state.
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A fast-growing class of online prediction markets is colliding with tribal gaming sovereignty, raising alarms in Indian Country over what a recent Brookings Institution report by legal scholar Patrice Kunesh calls an “existential threat” to American Indian gaming.