Lottery news stories

Mega Millions has officially confirmed that several new game changes are on the way, including a ticket price increase from $2 to $5.

D.C. Lottery officials welcomed back a Washington, D.C. man who brought in his second of two $25,000 a year for life Lucky for Life winning tickets after having originally lost it.

If it wasn't official before, it is now. $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot winner Edwin Castro will unequivocally get to keep his prize after a California judge ruled in his favor.

A Texas trust has stepped forward to claim the record-breaking $800 million Mega Millions jackpot, the largest prize ever paid out to a single Texas lottery player.

Someone in North Carolina won a $156,060 Cash 5 jackpot, but whoever is holding the winning lottery ticket must come forward within a week or risk losing it all.

Lottery players in Michigan have been remarkably lucky this past week, with five big lottery wins in Powerball, Lucky for Life, and Lotto 47 occurring within mere days of each other.

Texas Lottery officials are breathing a sigh of relief now that the winner of a $2 million Powerball prize has finally stepped forward to claim it just days before it was set to expire.

An Iowa retiree is looking forward to feeling the wind on her face again, having decided to use a $50,000 Iowa Lottery prize to honor her late husband by purchasing a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

A Michigan woman decided to skip a weekend getaway, and as a result, was in the right place at the right time to win a $500,000 prize in the lottery.

A Kentucky woman follows a personal tradition of playing the lottery on paydays, and it paid off to the tune of a $250,000 top prize.

Two D.C. Lottery DC 4 drawings, held on consecutive days, resulted in over one million dollars in prize payouts after the drawings produced winning numbers 8-8-8-8 and 2-2-2-2.

A Nebraska man beat the family record of the largest lottery prize won after winning $120,000 two months after his own son won $100,000.

A California woman is skipping to the bank and brushing aside the naysayers after winning a $1 million prize in the lottery.

Tonight’s Powerball drawing for the $223 million lottery jackpot will not take place at the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee as usual, nor will it be broadcast live due to Hurricane Helene.

A supermarket worker is facing prison after getting caught scamming the UK National Lottery of nearly £50,000 (US$66,993) using winning lottery tickets.

A 21-year-old from Michigan is now well-positioned to buy a new home after winning a $498,607 Fast Cash lottery jackpot.

Four individuals were arrested on Tuesday after they allegedly plowed a truck through a California convenience store to steal lottery tickets.

An Iowa woman who immigrated from Laos to the United States when she was young was thrilled to win a $1 million Powerball lottery prize.

A Maryland man bombarded with scam text messages turned the unwanted solicitations into $50,000 after using the phone numbers to win a Pick 5 prize in the lottery.

In what appears to be a recent statewide epidemic of unchecked or lost tickets, the Oregon Lottery is the latest state lottery to announce that three major prize-winning tickets are expiring over the next few weeks.