The Gleason Award honors gambling industry executives for commitment to and leadership of responsible gambling actions in their business and with their industry

Bigger jackpots, more prizes, better overall odds and more are coming April 2026 

The Illinois Lottery has delivered another strong year of results – $3.76 billion in total sales, its second highest sales year, and $796 million in proceeds, its fifth best year for net income – resulting in $784 million in contributions to the Common School Fund to support K-12 public education and over $12 million to special causes in Illinois

Through the WINTARIO50 Community Contest, a province-wide initiative honoring OLG’s 50-year history of supporting Ontario, more than $1 million was distributed across all 26 Ontario United Way regions

The Massachusetts State Lottery is hosting blood drives at its Dorchester headquarters and Braintree regional office to support the needs of patients from Boston Children's Hospital

Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Day at the State Fair honored the hard work of students across the state and highlighted the life-changing opportunities made possible through lottery-funded scholarships

The excitement is generating more sales, which in turn is bringing in more winners across the country – and more winnings!

The transaction, originally announced in July 2025, values Bally’s International Interactive at an enterprise value of €2.7 billion and combines the business with Intralot’s global lottery and gaming operations

The global lottery company will deliver the advanced central gaming system through its Momentum ecosystem — an integrated framework of technologies, applications and services designed to work together to optimize lottery performance

In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the Lottery provided more than $1.9 billion to public education, supporting K–12, community colleges, the UC and CSU systems, and more

This is the sixth largest quarterly transfer since the Lottery started in 1993, bringing the overall amount of proceeds transferred to $1,051,303,358

A new study estimates that BCLC’s head office has had an economic and social impact of $3 billion on the community of Kamloops since it opened on April 1, 1985