It seems that Internet gambling in the District is going back to the drawing board. more ›

Whether you want to call it "iGaming," "Internet gambling" or "non-traditional games," the District's first-of-its-kind online gambling program faced withering criticism from members of the D.C. Council at a hearing yesterday. more ›

Two Metro workers were arrested last night and face charges of stealing over $150,000 from fare machines, a good chunk of which went towards buying lottery tickets. more ›

Today is All Saints Day, which, according to the laws of American consumerism, means it's time for everyone to start thinking about Christmas. (I know, it's pretty gross.) more ›

Residents should take note of some minor changes to the remaining slate of public meetings regarding the District's online gaming program. more ›

If yesterday's Ward 5 town hall on the District's controversial new i-Gaming platform is any indication, it's not really the idea of online gambling that has residents put off -- but rather how the idea came to be and where the money it's supposed to generate will go. more ›

No, really, officials from the D.C. Lottery now say they are finally ready to answer your questions about the intranet gaming system which the D.C. Council quietly and controversially approved earlier this year. more ›

D.C. residents angry about the lack of public input involved in the legalization of online gaming will have to wait longer to publicly vent such frustrations -- the D.C. Lottery and city officials will postpone a slate of ward-by-ward meetings in an effort to “reach the largest number of D.C. residents.” more ›

The problem: you are an organization selling a product that you'd like more people to purchase -- in this case, lottery tickets. more ›

Curious about the intranet gaming system that the D.C. Council quietly approved earlier this year? Officials from the D.C. Lottery are now ready to answer your questions. more ›

Yeah, it's way too hot to be getting upset about the negative news of the day. more ›

Tough news for those of you who were hoping to do a little bit of gambling while you wandered outside to pick up a truck lunch this afternoon: the D.C. Lottery's Lucky Lottery Mobile, slated to have its first run at Farragut Square today, has some "technical difficulties" and won't be appearing as scheduled. more ›

Have you ever been out to lunch at one of the various food trucks which roam around the city and thought that the one thing which would make your midday meal complete is a scratch-off lottery ticket? Yeah, me neither. But that's not stopping the D.C. Lottery from hopping on the mobile retail bandwagon. more ›

Around 6 p.m. on Tuesday night, John Wall confidently strode into the NBA Draft Lottery media room, flanked by a member of the Wizards' press relations staff and an NBA escort. He pointed and smiled at a few people, gave former Georgetown and current Detroit Pistons center Greg Monroe a half hug/half handsake, and then did the same to projected number one pick Kyrie Irving. Then he smiled and shook hands with some members of the Washington D.C. media, before finally settling down in his designated area for interviews. He looked like a young man who ready to take on any and everything thrown his way. more ›

$330 million. That's a lot of moolah, alright. It's also the amount up for grabs in tonight's Mega Millions drawing, a nearly-national $1 lottery which is open residents of the District, Virginia and Maryland. Your chances of winning? 176 million-to-one. But think about what one could do with that kind of scratch! Even if you took the lump-sum payout, you'd probably end up with somewhere around $150 million, give or take, after taxes. That'd be enough to at least take care of your down payment on the White House, buy your own panda, operate the Newseum for 600 days, take a sizable chunk out of the city's projected deficit, front the cash for the next sure-to-fail Redskins signing, staff a pretty solid media conglomerate...the possibilities are endless, really. What would you do with that kind of financial flexibility, dear readers? more ›

So you missed out on Virgin FreeFest and Daily Show tickets? You have less than seven hours left to test your luck and enter the lottery for a coveted ticket to the National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony. The lottery closes tonight at midnight (we have no sympathy if you haven't fixed your clocks by this time) for 3,000 seats and 10,000 standing room admissions to the 5 p.m. free event on December 9. Enter online or by phone, 877-444-6777. Red and green not your style? Try white and blue. more ›

Want to attend the National Christmas Tree Lighting on the Ellipse on December 9? Tickets for 3,000 seats and 10,000 standing room admissions for the 5 p.m. event are free, but will be distributed through a lottery system that goes online at 12:01 a.m. this Thursday, November 4th (okay, technically, since it's a minute after midnight it's Friday the 5th -- but for most of us that means Thursday night). more ›

I've long wondered why anyone would buy tickets for D.C.'s Mega Millions lottery. The odds of winning are virtually identical to the multi-state Powerball, but the jackpots are almost always much smaller. That's changed lately: Friday's Mega Millions drawing is now set to feature a jackpot of $224 million, which is the largest in the history of the D.C. Lottery. If you take it all in cash, the estimated jackpot would still be $138.1 million. Powerball, meanwhile, is down to only $30 million this week, after a Missouri man recently won $258 million. more ›

The official online lottery for free White House Easter Egg Roll tickets opened today. You have until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 28 to submit your application. more ›

Many of you were unhappy with the outcome of this year's new lottery system to get tickets to the traditional White House Easter Egg Roll. Just read through the comments of this post for an idea of how annoyed local folks were that the ticketing system was opened up to the entire country, via the Internet. Then get ready to do the same thing all over again for the lighting of the White House Christmas tree. more ›

Just a little straight up feel good PR from grocer Giant Food. The company sent out word today that it donated the $100,000 commission it received from the D.C. Lottery as a result of selling that winning $144 million Powerball jackpot ticket to the Capital Area Food Bank. The winning ticket came from the relatively new Giant on Alabama Avenue in Southeast. The Food Bank plans to use the money to support the renovation and construction of a new, bigger food distribution center. more ›