Casinos

Silver City Galleria has seen the departure of multiple establishments, including key national brands like JC Penny, Macy's, and Best Buy.

If the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe wants the casino, they should have to apply and compete for the same commercial license.

Bristol Community College launched its new casino management concentration Friday by cutting the ribbon on the high-tech casino lab located at the BCC Taunton Center in the Silver City Galleria Mall. The ribbon cutting took place in celebration of the BCC CATCH Institute receiving the state’s first Gaming School Certification from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission this past June...

TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) _ A Massachusetts tribe is anticipating a decision from the federal government on 321 acres it wants designated as sovereign tribal land. The Interior Department has notified the Mashpee Wampanoag that it will announce whether it will grant land in trust status to 170 acres in Mashpee and 151 acres in Taunton by Tuesday...

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission levied a $65,000 fine upon Plainridge Park Casino for repeatedly not complying with minimum security staffing requirements at the Plainville slots parlor. Between Dec. 26, 2016 and Jan. 7, 2017, and again on Jan...

BOSTON (AP) - A Massachusetts tribe says it hopes to resume construction on a $1 billion casino in Taunton this summer. The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe said Friday it was encouraged by word that the U.S. Department of Interior plans to issue a new decision by mid-June on the tribe's land status...

Massachusetts spins the wheel on casino gaming and everyone wins but us. In case you missed it, a federal appeals court has decided that the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head can in fact open a gaming facility in the town of Aquinnah on Martha's Vineyard...

The special election for the vacant New Bedford City Council seat in ward three is going to be a battle among at least five political heavy weights and their supporters.

The city of New Bedford is getting focused on the recreational marijuana industry before it fully blooms in 2018.

A Jamaican woman living in Fall River will be spending the next two years and three months in a federal prison. Fifty-one year old Sandra McDonald was sentenced Wednesday to 27 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and must pay restitution of almost $300,000 to state and federal agencies, including the Social Security Administration, the State Supplemental Program, MassHealth, and t