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The New York State Gaming Commission is giving approval to allowing lottery players to order scratch-off tickets on their phones.

A former Oneonta convenience store clerk really has no luck after some lottery tickets landed him in trouble with the law.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoes a measure that would have allowed the winners of state lottery game jackpots to remain anonymous.

Hunters are being encouraged to get their names in quickly for a lottery to harvest antlerless deer around the reservoirs that supply water to New York City.

Some families who are thinking about taking up camping can get a big boost getting started from New York State.

Federal prosecutors say a Jamaican man is headed to prison for preying on citizens in the U.S.A., including in New York State, in a lottery scam.

Three tickets were sold with all of the winning numbers in the record-breaking $1.6 billion Powerball drawing. None of the big winners was sold in New York state. But, lottery officials say, five tickets purchased in the state are worth $1 million because they matched five of the numbers in Wednesday night's drawing...

Lottery officials report there are at least three winning tickets for the January 13 $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot, one in California, one in Tennessee and one in Florida.