The winner of the Feb. 17 Lotto Texas jackpot worth $83.5 million has filed a lawsuit in Travis County seeking to compel the ...

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A House committee on Tuesday advanced legislation that preserves the embattled Texas Lottery but abolishes the commission that oversees it.

FOX 7 Austin's chief political reporter Rudy Koski and our panel of analysts discussed the big stories from This Week in ...

The bill would spare the lottery from being abolished, but would keep its operations under close watch for the next two years ...

The Texas Senate voted unanimously on Thursday to overhaul the state's lottery system, passing legislation that dismantles ...

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Texans "like their Lotto and ... scratch-off games," and therefore, the state will fix the lottery.

The legislation would end lottery couriers and restart the process to hire a vendor to oversee the behind-the-scenes ...

The Texas lotto shouldn't disappear, but it needs to be investigated and reformed and possibly moved into another agency. ...

In response, the Texas Lottery Commission voted to ban such courier services, leading to legal challenges from companies like Lotto.com. Senator Bob Hall introduced Senate Bill 1988, aiming to ...