Clarification: Casino Fight-Tribes story | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan's News Source
Subscribe

Would you like to subscribe to our newsletter?

Current Conditions Mostly Cloudy  24.9°C

Clarification: Casino Fight-Tribes story

In this April 13, 2017 photo, signs guide gamblers through construction at the Ho-Chunk Nation's casino in Wittenberg, Wis. The Ho-Chunk is adding a hotel and restaurant to the site, stoking fears from rival tribe Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans that the expanded facility will hurt business at that tribe's casino 17 miles away. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)
Original Publication Date April 23, 2017 - 8:06 AM

BOWLER, Wis. - In a story April 23 about a dispute over a proposal by the Ho-Chunk Nation to expand a northern Wisconsin casino, The Associated Press reported that in 2015, Gov. Scott Walker refused to give the Menominee Nation permission to build a second casino on trust land in Kenosha after rival tribes complained. Walker blocked the land from being placed in trust, which in turn blocked the casino project.

News from © The Associated Press, 2017
The Associated Press

  • Popular kelowna News
View Site in: Desktop | Mobile