Lotto will be donating all profits from next Saturday's draw to the quake relief.

A photo of what appears to be the winning $44 million Lotto ticket circulating online is a fake, Lotto has confirmed.

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.

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.

Businesses needs to recognise that when it's granted the right to operate, it has to accept the responsibilities of acting in a sustainable way.

He was a big star in the private equity world. Now, Andrew Caspersen is facing years in prison.

In a quest to maintain its footing, Maryland's largest casino is investing $200 million to add new amenities.

Pokie spending is rising at the fastest rate in five years as immigrants and tourists swell the coffers of pubs and clubs.

As world gambling experts gather in Auckland this week, the biggest threat on their minds is now online betting.

Kiwis have dropped from the fourth to sixth-biggest gamblers in the world.

SkyCity Entertainment Group, New Zealand's only listed casino company, expects its first-half profit to soar.

Better results from its flagship Auckland property and its struggling Adelaide operations mean a good start to the 2016 financial year.

Building project announced to take 38 months.

Casino's backtrack the second big consumer failure this month after Harvey Norman's cut-price furniture fiasco.

Increases to the proportion of revenue clubs and bars with pokie machines give to community groups will be delayed under a new Government proposal.

After a conscience-wrestle that culminated in a tied vote, Buller district councillors last night quashed an application for more pokie machines in Westport.

New Zealanders are gambling less, and are also less worried about gambling, than they were a decade ago.

The Problem Gambling Foundation has won a challenge against the Ministry of Health, which wanted to cut its funding.

Sixteen months after a Government decision to end most of its contracts, the Problem Gambling Foundation has won a year’s further reprieve.

A Rotorua Lotto player walked into his local dairy this afternoon with no idea he was $24 million richer.

Best friends Margaret and Edith won $1 million, while another winner has just claimed the $24.3m jackpot.