The Problem Gambling Foundation is seeking legal advice over a possible High Court challenge to a controversial Government decision to axe funding for most of its services for gambling addicts.

Editorial: Revenge may well be a dish best served cold. It can also be best served by a third party, with no obvious fingerprints and in a way that offers plausible deniability.

The Salvation Army says it was unaware it would be taking over as the lead agency for gambling addiction services after the Ministry of Health controversially cut funding to the Problem Gambling Foundation.

The plug has been pulled on government funds for the Problem Gambling Foundation, amid claims it's payback for opposing the SkyCity convention centre deal.

The mystery millionaire who won $26 million on Powerball three weeks ago has spent up large on cars and is planning to follow the All Blacks on tour.

A suspect in a record-breaking drug probe had a gambling turnover of $14m at SkyCity Casino despite declaring an income of just $4217 over the same time period.

The number of pokies in pubs and clubs across Auckland continued to fall last year as did the amount Aucklanders lost on the machines.

A former gambling trust administrator has been sentenced to home detention after misusing more than $1.7 million in proceeds that should have gone to the community.

Treating gambling addicts who commit crimes would be much cheaper than jailing them, and would reduce reoffending, says a New York judge.

An Otago man has turned a $10 bet into six figures, just a week after a man from a neighbouring town did exactly the same thing.

A $10 bet at the TAB has scored a $300,000 windfall for a Dunedin man who says he's too old to spend his winnings.

A couple from Taupo unwrapped a very generous present this Christmas when a Lotto ticket they received as a gift won them $1 million with Lotto First Division.

2013 was the year Britain lost its innocence in the fixing debate. A former Premier League player was filmed by an undercover reporter claiming he could arrange for players to be sent off in exchange for a $140,400 fee.

Queenslanders are frantically checking their lottery tickets as the hunt goes on for Australia's newest multi-millionaire - who is holding on to a ticket worth A$70m.

Labour leader David Cunliffe took the attack to Prime Minister John Key as the Government backed a convention centre deal with SkyCity.

Information about the harm caused by the SkyCity convention centre deal was withheld because it was considered commercially sensitive, official papers show.

A senior equities analyst has raised questions about Labour potentially scrapping SkyCity Entertainment Group's $402 million convention centre.

Australian and New Zealand expansion will transform SkyCity Entertainment Group into a very different business in five years, shareholders have been told.

Massey University ignored warnings a study analysing the benefits of pokie grants would produce flawed results that would be used by the gaming industry as a weapon in the debate over gaming reform.

A study published by the Lion Foundation which extols the benefits of funding community projects with gambling money is course work produced by a group of Massey commerce students.

Mayor Len Brown is trying to rewrite history over his support for the SkyCity pokies-convention centre deal, says mayoral challenger John Minto.

A former big Lotto winner says the man who won $33 million at the weekend will need good advice because the win will be overpowering.

Approval for smoking in SkyCity's high-roller lounge may be stubbed out after it was challenged in the High Court.

Last night's $33-million Lotto jackpot has earned one lucky ticket holder a fortune, while $22.6 million remains unclaimed from last week's Big Wednesday jackpot.

Five numbers - plus the crucial Powerball number four - was all it took for one person to take home last night's must-win $33 million jackpot.

Gaming trusts would be forced to return more pokie machine profits to sports teams and community groups under proposed gambling reforms.