Casinos
The newly elected Pope County Quorum Court has voiced its opposition to a casino being built there.
by Bill Bowden - February 6, 2021The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Cherokee Nation Businesses has the right to intervene in a lawsuit over a casino license in Pope County.
by Bill Bowden - February 5, 2021The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Cherokee Nation Businesses had the right to intervene in litigation over the sole casino license in Pope Co...
by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - February 4, 2021PINE BLUFF -- After months of delay, Saracen Casino Resort -- the state's first standalone gambling facility -- celebrated its grand opening Tuesday, welcomi...
by Lara Farrar - October 21, 2020From the outside, Saracen Casino Resort still has vestiges of the active construction site it has been since August of last year, but on the inside, the stat...
by Dale Ellis - October 16, 2020The Arkansas Racing Commission Thursday signed off on next year's racing dates for Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort in Hot Springs and the Southland Casino Racin...
by Michael R. Wickline - September 25, 2020Interest is running high in the new Saracen Casino Resort, which, although beset by delays because of abnormally high rainfall and material delays during the...
by Dale Ellis - September 2, 2020The committee promoting a proposed constitutional amendment that would authorize 16 more casinos in Arkansas on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to dismi...
by Michael R. Wickline - August 8, 2020Another chapter in a contentious process closed Thursday when a divided Arkansas Racing Commission denied the Cherokee Nation Businesses' appeal of the commi...
by Michael R. Wickline - July 31, 2020Pine Bluff and Jefferson County officials are expressing optimism over the future of Saracen Casino as the Quapaw Nation prepares for a change in leadership ...
by Dale Ellis - July 30, 2020The state Board of Election Commissioners on Wednesday balked at signing off on the ballot title's language for a proposed constitutional amendment that woul...
by Michael R. Wickline - July 30, 2020A divided Arkansas Racing Commission on Thursday denied the Oklahoma-based Cherokee Nation Businesses’ appeal of the commission’s decision to award a casino ...
by Michael R. Wickline - July 30, 2020The state Board of Election Commissioners on Wednesday declined to sign off on a proposed ballot title for a proposed constitutional amendment that would aut...
by Michael R. Wickline - July 29, 2020A group seeking to expand casino gambling in more than a dozen Arkansas counties filed an appeal Friday of Secretary of State John Thurston's decision to blo...
by John Moritz - July 25, 2020The Arkansas Supreme Court has vacated a Pulaski County circuit judge's finding that the Cherokee Nation Businesses' Legends Resort and Casino LLC is not qua...
by Michael R. Wickline - July 16, 2020