At precisely 6:42 p.m. on October 11, Herminia Rodriguez struck it rich. Or so she thought. The 64-year-old Phoenix grandmother was playing the “Quartermania” slot machine at Harrah’s Ak-Chin, a ...

Kathy Imes, 64, of Maricopa, Arizona, plays slots during the reopening of Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino in Maricopa, Ariz. on Friday, May 15, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal) ...

After nearly two months of silent slot machines and empty card tables, several Arizona casinos are starting to reopen their doors — with new sanitation measures in place to ward off COVID-19. Harrah’s ...

When the small Ak-Chin Indian Community decided to enter the casino business in the early 1990s, it was a gamble for the tribe. "In the beginning, some people were skeptical about gaming in our back ...