The Bureau of Indian Affairs on Friday approved the Ho-Chunk Nation's application for a casino in Beloit, more than two decades after the city residents voted in favor of the complex.
Read More »Gov. Evers advances plans for $405M Ho-Chunk casino in Beloit
Gov. Tony Evers on Wednesday announced he has approved the Ho-Chunk Nation's plan to build a $405 million casino in Beloit, a step toward the start of construction on the project after more than a decade of planning.
Read More »Ho-Chunk receives approval for Beloit casino (UPDATE)
Plans for the Ho-Chunk Nation’s $405 million casino in Beloit are heading to Gov. Tony Evers’ desk after federal officials signed off on the project.
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Read More »Ho-Chunk’s long-planned $405M Beloit casino leaps toward reality
With a recent federal approval, developers are moving closer to taking a chance on a new Ho-Chunk Nation casino and resort in Beloit. The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs recently filed a draft environmental assessment for the project, which would ...
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Read More »State’s high court rules against Wingra Redi-Mix, protects burial sites
A concrete company can't dig up American Indian burial mounds located within its southern Wisconsin quarry, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday without any explanation.
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Read More »Illinois lawmaker opposes proposed $405.5M Wisconsin casino
An Illinois lawmaker says a casino proposed for southern Wisconsin would deal an economic blow to an adjacent Illinois town.
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Read More »Ho-Chunk Nation dismissed from casino expansion lawsuit
A federal judge has sided with the Ho-Chunk Nation and its casino expansion plans in a lawsuit filed by the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe.
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Read More »Ho-Chunk Nation urges judge to reject casino lawsuit
The Ho-Chunk Nation is pushing back against a rival tribe's lawsuit seeking to halt the Ho-Chunk's plans to expand a northern Wisconsin casino, arguing in new filings that the lawsuit has little chance of success and a judge should reject it.
Read More »View from around the state: Walker needs to answer questions in tribal gaming fight
Whatever happened to Gov. Scott Walker's criteria for expanding tribal gaming in Wisconsin? And why isn't his administration considering those criteria in the fight between the Ho-Chunk Nation and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community over Ho-Chunk plans to expand its gambling operations?
Read More »Tribes clash in casino expansion fight
At 85, Betty Putnam-Schiel has trouble standing, but she gets along well enough in her home on the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans' northern Wisconsin reservation thanks to tribal assistants who do everything from shovel her snow to change her lightbulbs. But maybe not for much longer.
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