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.

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

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

Lotto tickets may give ray of hope, but there are free competitions, write Mary Holm.

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.

Two items published on nzherald.co.nz — on March 11 and this one on May 8 — about court actions involving Malcolm Rabson incorrectly reported the nature of the judgments.

The revamped design of the SkyCity convention centre has divided critics, with one urban design expert saying it looks like "a ship beached up on Nelson St".

Final designs unveiled following months of negotiations. And it still costs more than the original deal between SkyCity and the Government.

One of New Zealand's biggest convicted drug smugglers spent $15 million at SkyCity casino - while receiving the unemployment benefit.

Lady Luck has waved her magic wand upon Peter Bromhead, who claims to have won the chance to spin Lotto's lucrative spinning wheel.

Sunset is far away for an industry that deserves and earns the government support it gets, writes John Allen.

Internal Affairs are investigating the legality of children's amusement machines which experts say are grooming young people to play the pokies.

The winners were from Auckland and Hamilton bought their tickets at Mitchell's Paper Power in Auckland, Willowbank Superette in Auckland and Countdown Te Rapa in Hamilton.

The Government is looking at clamping down on online overseas betting by New Zealanders, saying it deprives the local racing industry of important income.

A croupier who made $10,000 working in an illegal gambling den in one of Auckland's wealthiest suburbs spent all the money on rent and food.

Kiwi punters were on the ball when it came to guessing which Black Caps bowling star would shine at the World Cup, but weren't so accurate with the batsmen.

'We can't wait to help make other people's lives a little easier.' The winners of Saturday's $9.1 million Powerball prize share how they will spend their money.