Three winners split $1m in tonight's first division Lotto win.

A hostage situation unfolded in front of pedestrians on a busy street in Indonesia.

'Excited' city dweller now $333,333 richer after three winning tickets sold locally.

Hawke's Bay man "didn't know that he had won big", says store owner.

Winning $1m Lotto ticket sold at Levin New World.

Lotto says any MyLotto users who have visited the scam site should change their login.

Lee was sentenced to four months' home detention and ordered to pay reparation.

The Government is poised to overhaul the $843m pokie machine system.

The prize was made up of $6m from Powerball first division and $500,000 from Lotto first division.

Casinos had the largest increase in gambling, new figures show.

A Māori-themed online gambling game has been withdrawn by its Czech creators after protests that it breached Māori intellectual property.

The number 13 appeared to be a lucky sign for Lotto players last year.

One lucky Kiwi will start 2017 a million dollars richer.

COMMENT: Most people who play Lotto have at least some kind of intuitive understanding they are probably not going to hit the jackpot.

A Government decision to cut funding to New Zealand's biggest problem gambling programme has been backed by the Court of Appeal.

The "lucky 14" who won a A$40 million jackpot in a workplace syndicate have had a cheeky celebration after a colleague lost his bid for a share in the prize.

The gambling records of a casino VIP led police to find a familiar name written on a piece of paper which changed the course of the investigation.

More than two million Lotto tickets are expected to sell for tonight's record $44 million must-be-won Powerball draw.

The greatest horse race in the southern hemisphere slips into stride today at Flemington. Here's your online Melbourne Cup guide with a Kiwi flavour.

Offices around the country will grind to a standstill next Tuesday tomorrow at 5pm when the 156th Melbourne Cup kicks off over the

In the world's most opulent VIP gambling rooms, a murky world exists where super-rich high-rollers meet organised crime.

Casino company Sky City Entertainment said it was monitoring the situation in China after 18 employees at its competitor, Crown Resorts, were detained by authorities there last week.

Shares in casino company Sky City Entertainment were sold down today on concerns about the lucrative "high roller" VIP market following

Sales for the year to the end of June were up 9 per cent to just more than $974 million - Lotto New Zealand's second-best result.

A man has pleaded guilty to 16 charges, mostly connected to burglaries in central Dargaville last month.

Kiwi gamblers have poured $843 million into pokies - the "crack cocaine" of gambling in New Zealand - in the last year.

Maori Party co-leader and Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell says he is sick and tired of attending tangi of Maori who have died as a result

A new house and car are on the cards for a Dunedin couple who won $13.3 million in Lotto, at what must be New Zealand's luckiest Lotto outlet.

COMMENT: The rise of sports gambling means more money for sporting bodies -- and more scope for match-fixing.