Seminole Tribe of Florida

Hard Rock International and Florida-based Seminole Gaming, are planning a three-year renovation. They will replace the resort’s fire-spewing sidewalk-side volcano with a bright new guitar-shaped hotel with 600 rooms.

Thom Parham, a 64-year-old history teacher, is devoted to finding remnants of the Seminole Wars, and has also found kindred spirits along the way.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that could set aside about $750 million a year from Florida's gambling compact with the Seminole Tribe for conservation work. Critics are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw it out.

As online gambling gets easier to access and harder to control, Florida's Counsel on Compulsive Gambling is hoping for some help from Florida lawmakers.

The state of Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida are raking in millions of dollars from online sports betting, thanks to a compact that gave the tribe exclusive rights to run sports wagers and casino gambling on its reservations.

The bill, which is headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis' desk, will allocate millions of dollars to preserve wildlife, waterways and green spaces.

The Everglades restoration is among the largest aquatic restoration efforts to ever occur, with dozens of projects spanning 18,000 square miles from Orlando to Biscayne Bay, and from Florida Bay to the Caloosahatchee River.

The Seminole Tribe intends to resume making payments to Florida as part of a 30-year deal that included giving the tribe control over sports betting.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and legislative leaders late Friday urged the Florida Supreme Court to reject a challenge to a deal that allowed the Seminole Tribe to offer online sports betting statewide, saying it does not violate a 2018 constitutional amendment that restricted casino gambling.

The Seminole Tribe has faced lawsuits in the Florida Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court over its newly relaunched sports betting app.

Without explanation, the Florida Supreme Court denied a motion to “immediately suspend the sports betting provisions” of a law that carried out a 2021 gambling deal between the Seminole Tribe and the state.

After more than two years of legal wrangling about a 2021 deal with Florida that allowed the Seminoles to offer online sports betting anywhere in the state, Seminole Tribe leaders said they plan to roll out sports betting in December.