Plans call for a 48,100 square-foot casino on about 11.41 acres in Skagit County.

Chairman William Iyall is confident that the Environmental Protection Agency will approve the project.

The state is now home to 12 'deemed approved' compacts, a record number.

The existing agreement runs through February 6, 2016, giving the parties more time to negotiate potential changes.

Sequoyah Simermeyer, a Senate staffer who used to work at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, is due to join the agency that oversees the $28.5 billion tribal casino industry.

The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians will be facing a formidable opponent as it purses the $180 million development in Michigan.

A 151-acre site in Taunton, Massachusetts, plus another 170 acres in Mashpee, the location of tribal headquarters, were immediately placed in trust by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Local officials are singing the praises of the $180 million project as the Bureau of Indian Affairs moves forward with the review process.

The tribe is pursuing the project in Fruitport Township, Michigan, under the two-part determination provisions of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

The tribe plans a $180 million development in Fruitport Township, about 80 miles from reservation headquarters.

The state is home to nine deemed approved compacts, accounting for more than half of the tribes with casinos.

Seven tribes now have deemed approved Class III gaming compacts, a seemingly unprecedented number in any state.

The tribe is due back in federal court to defend the legality of a controversial Class II facility on the island of Martha's Vineyard.

A notice of the new agreement was published in the Federal Register on June 22.

The tribe spent nearly eight years trying to get the 410-acre site placed in trust.

It only took nearly eight years, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs has finally approved a land-into-trust application for the southern California tribe.

The tribe wants to develop a village and a Class III gaming facility in the city of South Bend.

The county won out in a dispute over the cost of law enforcement services.

The tribe submitted a land-into-trust application more than two years ago.