A Christchurch Lotto player won $5.5 million in last night's Powerball draw just two weeks after a Te Kauwhata man won a massive $26m prize.
New Zealand's newest multimillionaire was still in hiding yesterday after winning a $26 million fortune, but there is no shortage of people trying to get close to him.
Lotto's latest multimillion-dollar winner has gone into hiding after being contacted with requests for money.
The Te Kauwhata man who bet his $26 million Lotto win that he would to return to work this morning has failed to show up for his 5am shift.
Someone has spent their Sunday morning coming to terms with the fact they are $25 million richer.
They say lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice - but it seems winning Lotto does.
The car and overseas travel are a given - but whoever wins tonight's $23 million Lotto Powerball draw is just as likely to celebrate with a trip to the dentist.
Huge jackpots lured New Zealanders into spending a record $926 million on Lotto, Instant Kiwi and other lotteries in the past year - and the Lotteries Commission is looking to boost sales further.
A solo mother-of-three, who slept on a couch because she could not afford a proper bed and struggled to buy her children Christmas gifts, prayed for a miracle - and got it.
While politics are on the minds of most this morning, an Auckland Lotto Powerball winner is celebrating a win of more than $6 million.
Living week to week will be a thing of the past for a Waikanae couple who have come forward to claim a $15.6 million Lotto prize.
Three Lotto winners got a Halloween surprise when they won a share of the $1 million first division prize last night.
After playing the same Lotto numbers for nearly 25 years, a Dunedin family has finally won the first division.
The latest lotto winner found out he'd won $500,000 halfway through listening to a national anthem at Eden Park.
New Zealand's luckiest Lotto winner says winning was extremely stressful and it took a year before she stopped shaking and looking over her shoulder.
A Wairarapa man has won Lotto for the second time in his life.
It wasn't until he was asked to go out the back of the lotto shop where he was checking his ticket that an Auckland man thought he might have won more than a bonus line.
A forestry worker can finally fulfil his dream of owning a boat after sailing away from Saturday's Powerball draw with more than $12 million.
Lotto managers say the Lotto powerball jackpot will likely hit $23 million next week - although two lucky winners will not be complaining after sharing $1 million tonight. Despite the powerball...
Redundant Thursday. Lotto winner Saturday.