5/19/17 - Harnesslink ALBANY, NY - The New York Gaming Association (NYGA) today released their Annual Statewide Economic Impact Report detailing the economic activity, education funding and quality jobs and local tax revenue generated by NYGA throughout the 2016...

5/19/17 - Democrat & Chronicle ALBANY – The state’s nine racetracks with gambling operations are promoting how much they provide to the state in education dollars and jobs amid growing competition from casinos and a push by some of them to improve their tax rates....

2/17/17 - Democrat & Chronicle ALBANY - In 2003, New York's racetracks were paying out among the lowest prizes in the nation, and many of the tracks, particularly upstate harness facilities, were nearly set to be put out to pasture. Then the racetracks started...

10/26/16 - Mid-Hudson News Patrons of Monticello Raceway have a new option for playing the ponies at that track, or any other in North America. Monticello Casino and Raceway unveiled a simulcast room on Wednesday. The room, just off the gaming floor, is somewhat...

10/11/16 - The Journal News Yonkers' Empire City celebrating 10 years YONKERS - Beverly Butler has one big reason why she prefers coming to Empire City's casino at Yonkers Raceway instead of going to a closer one in New York City. "They give out more money here," said...

7/6/16 - The Saratogian The new Saratoga Casino Hotel has created jobs for more than 100 people and one horse, named Harley. The large Clydesdale will take guests to and from Saratoga Race Course during the upcoming thoroughbred season in a gleaming black...

6/24/16 - Albany Business Review Saratoga Casino Hotel, formerly Saratoga Casino and Raceway, will open next week - Albany Business Review The new Saratoga Casino Hotel will open next week after completing a $40 million expansion that includes a 117-room hotel,...

Blood-Horse - 6/27/16 The operator of the video lottery terminal casino at Aqueduct Racetrack plans a December groundbreaking on an expansion project expected to add more than 750,000-square-feet to the facility, but the plan hasn't been presented to the New York...

The Buffalo News - Donald Trump and other Atlantic City casino interests in 1997 spent a lot of money on a lobbying campaign to help kill a plan that would have allowed commercial casinos in Western New York, the Catskills and just north of Albany. A generation later,...

Times Herald-Record - Empire Resorts, which is building the $1.3 billion Montreign Resort Casino at Adelaar in Sullivan County, has installed a time-lapse camera at the construction site to document and broadcast the transition from construction site to casino. Empire...