Within five years as many as 40 U.S. states may legalize sports gambling, and by next year roughly half the U.S. population will have access to betting on games ...

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UPDATED: June 17, 6:36 p.m. The Honolulu City Council on Monday unanimously approved Bill 89 that would implement stiffer regulations for short-term.

As announced recently following new potential revenue streams which could have been cropped in the state with legalized gambling activities, Nebraska voters ...

By DAVE THOMAS | La Mesa Courier. It is not every day that a young soccer player gets to pack their bags and head off to the nation's 50th state. That said, this ...

The online gaming industry has grown rapidly since inception in the 1990s. At the time, barely a handful of online casinos and sports betting sites were available ...

If Nebraskans vote to legalize casino gambling it will mean that the majority of American states now legally permit casino gambling.

Spare us the morality lessons and let's get real about taking advantage of funding sources that don't raise taxes.

The 6-foot-7, 285-pounder compiled a career worth of highlights into just one season, becoming the third freshman to be voted player of the year by The ...

Rich and Mary Zelasko finalized their divorce last year after a lengthy legal battle. Now, the Michigan man will lose a portion of his winnings to her.

Gambling Laws -- With a patchwork quilt of laws and regulations from state to state, understanding what is allowed – and where – can be quite confusing.

Powerball or Mega Millions lottery in Hawaii is not happening anytime soon. Not even a study on the lottery looking into raising more money for the general fund.

Full 2019 guide to which US states allow DFS betting sites - Find out where you can play daily fantasy sports for cash on DraftKings and FanDuel.

City lawmakers in Washington have voted to legalize sports betting, making the District of Columbia the first U.S. jurisdiction without casinos to authorize sports ...

Among the dozens of sports betting bills already on file this year are new proposals from two unlikely states — Arizona and Hawaii.

Hawaii House Bill 1107 would introduce the possibility of a sports betting entity to the Aloha State, following the overturn of PASPA in May 2018.

Arizona and Hawaii are two states unused to sharing any sorts of headlines. In fact, they are on opposite sides of each other in almost every way, from ...

There were 2014 winning tickets Saturday for the Pick 4 lottery's $7.8 million jackpot. The winning numbers were 0-0-0-0.

Americans spend about $261 in casinos and on lottery tickets. Nevadans spend the most, $5000 per adult. Rhode Island leads in lottery spending.

One of the most surprising stories to break this week, courtesy of Legal Sports Report, was the news that Hawaii has emerged as being among the latest US ...

Those who think that a Hawaii lottery to help fund the rail project is a good idea (“Lottery is among common-sense ideas,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, May 5) should ...

Legislation to legalize online sports betting in Tennessee passed Wednesday in the House of Representatives, despite a spirited debate from members worried ...

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A Hawaii resident visiting Las Vegas won a jackpot worth more than $1 million in less than 5 minutes of gambling.

Titans kicker Ryan Succop sized up one effect of legal online sports betting in Tennessee: “We'll probably have more people watching games,” he said.

Find out why six states don't let you buy Mega Millions tickets.

My wife and I moved to San Francisco in 2001, and after 18 years, we finally decided we've had enough. Our plan now is to cash out of the tech IPO boom and ...

Sports betting could soon be legal in Hawaii. A bill proposing this form of betting recently passed its first hearing. The bill would establish a state office to ...

Two state senators have filed bills in the Alabama Legislature to create a state lottery. In addition, a state representative has put forward two bills that would ...

Reports that China's Hainan Province had scrapped its prohibition on gambling, prostitution, and pornography have been misconstrued, local officials have said.

... • The right to statewide initiative and referendum that citizens enjoy in almost every other Western state. • Legislative term limits to encourage *fresh* leadership ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. >> Some gambling and technology executives say 90% of sports betting in the United States will be done over mobile phones or the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa >> The Mega Millions numbers that could win an estimated $1 billion jackpot have been announced. They are 15 23 53 65 70 and Mega ...

The United States Supreme Court overturned a sports gambling prohibition in May 2018. It opened the door for states to pass legislation allowing for sports ...

Ohio is the only new addition to our legislative watch list for sports betting, but relevant bills were on the move in a number of US states this week.

The exodus continues. According to new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of urban Honolulu declined in 2018 for the second year in a row, ...

LAS VEGAS – Talk about lucky – and on St. Patrick's Day no less. According to Hawaii News Now, an unnamed resident of the Aloha State struck it rich at the ...

Nevada has the most casinos in the United States, and a recent study by WalletHub indicated the state is also the gambling addicted in the country.

NEW BERLIN, Wis. >> A single ticket that matched all six Powerball numbers to win the estimated $768.4 million jackpot — the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery ...

TRENTON, N.J. >> An unemployed New Jersey man who won last Friday's $273 million Mega Millions jackpot said he wants to reward the mystery person who ...

In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association allowed Congress to regulate sports wagering directly. If Congress ...

DES MOINES, Iowa >> Lottery officials say two tickets have won the estimated $750 million Powerball jackpot. Powerball officials say tickets purchased in Iowa ...

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed a gaming study bill on Friday, a move that could eventually open the door to online poker and casino gambling in the ...

Fast food chain Arby's is promoting its new sandwich by selling 24-hour trips to Hawaii for only $6.

Policymakers say more transparency about current spending is needed before more public money is earmarked for schools.

Lottery officials have some advice if you win the $970 million Mega Millions jackpot up for grabs Friday night.

This week's tour of sports betting bills starts with a standoff in New York, moves through the progress in New England, and finishes around some important ...

Three months after the Supreme Court overturned a law prohibiting states from legalizing sports betting, a few states have begun accepting wagers.

The winning ticket was sold at the KC Mart in Simpsonville, SC. No one has claimed the historic jackpot.

There are only two states out of the 50 in America with no legalized gambling: Utah and Hawaii. The former has a deeply religious population and happily.

This could be the year the Hawaii Legislature gets serious about a bill to legalize adult recreational use of marijuana. While its passage and Gov. David Ige's ...

Stop the madness. It's been reported that tickets for the preseason NFL football game between the Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys at Aloha Stadium on ...

A proposal to institute a state lottery cleared its first hurdle in the Alabama Legislature on Tuesday and could head to a floor vote later this week. The Senate ...

Jill R. Dorson takes us on a state-by-state tour of the sports betting landscape in 2018. Fifth in this five-part series: the west.

DES MOINES, Iowa >> The winning numbers have been drawn for the record $1.6 billion Mega Millions lottery jackpot, but it isn't immediately clear if there's a ...

A panel of gaming experts in New Orleans analyzed the lottery's role in 2019 and whether it should be part of the sports betting picture.

The annual lottery debate is happening again at the state Legislature.

Ola Ka Ilima Artspace Lofts is offering new, affordable, housing and studio space for artists. Located at 1025 Waimanu Street, about midway between Ward and ...

MADISON, Wis. >> A 24-year-old Wisconsin man stepped forward today to claim a $768 million Powerball prize, the nation's third-largest lottery jackpot, saying ...

Nearly every state in the Midwest is considering sports betting bills, but which one will be the first to pass a law? Last week's movement offered some clues.

Powerball is still looking for its first jackpot winner of 2019 as the grand prize edges ever closer to half a billion dollars.

The Alabama-born entertainer died in 2017, leaving behind a property in Honolulu with a spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean.

Read more on the when experts think your state will officially legalize sports betting, both at physical locations and online.

The U.S. legal sports betting industry is growing, and will continue to grow, exponentially. But what kind of numbers are we talking here? A report released on ...

U.S. consumers rack up more than $100 billion per year in gambling losses.

Utah's fringe gaming bill passes House committee and heads for a full vote on the House floor. It appears sweepstakes machines' days may be numbered.

UPDATED: The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled the language wasn't clear enough on a proposed constitutional amendment to fund public schools.

Hawaii is considered a “blue state.” Virtually all the politicians are Democrats, but when the Legislature and councils are in session no one's life, liberty or ...

RICHMOND, Va. >> A Virginia woman parlayed a feeling to purchase 30 lottery tickets with the same numbers to win $150,000. Deborah Brown says she ...

Beginning Friday, Boston travelers can hop a 5,095-mile flight to Hawaii on what's being billed as the longest regularly scheduled interstate flight in US history.

The lottery winner shared his good news with his two roommates, but when he couldn't collect, he suspected one of them had stolen the ticket and reported it to ...

The jackpot is the eighth-largest in the game's history and largest this year.

WAILUKU, Hawaii — A Hawaii woman with ties to North Carolina has been found alive in a forest on Maui island after going missing more than two weeks ago, ...

Several meetings have already been held throughout the state.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Each year, the city allows 15 events to close Kalakaua Avenue. Event organizers participate in a lottery system for each of ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii woman said Tuesday she fell to the ground and started bawling when a rescue helicopter spotted her in a forest where she had ...

Several New Jersey mayors are headed to Hawaii this summer — some at the expense of taxpayers. The US Conference of Mayors is hosting its annual ...

HONOLULU — As Dallas-based Southwest Airlines ramps up its *service* to Hawaii with 28 daily flights by the end of May, the state is facing a problem in ...

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Mantej Singh, 37, faces grand theft and embezzlement charges.

HONOLULU (AP) -- A snake stowed away in a man's bag and remained undetected until it completed the trip from Florida to Hawaii. KGMB-TV reported ...

The body found on the shore at Kailua Bay on Oahu Sunday matches the description of the person who disappeared on Friday.

It is believed she may have been jogging in a forest.

A bill seeking to legalize online casino, poker, and lottery has been introduced in Hawaii, but passage is unlikely in the notoriously anti-gambling state.

KOLOA — Rental applications are being accepted for Koa'e Makana, an affordable workforce housing development in Koloa. “As the need for housing ...

The chance of him finding a donor is like we used to say, a needle in a haystack."

Lost in Tennessee's move to legalize sports betting, amid the lust for more revenue. is the potential harm of normalizing an addictive vice.

COLUMBIA, S.C. >> The South Carolina woman who won $878 million in the biggest jackpot payout to one winner in U.S. history wants to share her windfall ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A man has died after leaping into the ocean at an isolated Hawaii cliff where another person was critically injured days earlier, officials said.

CHICAGO >> New Orleans has bucked the odds and won the NBA draft lottery, and now will have the first chance at choosing Zion Williamson next month.

For this month's story on living small, I stood in as the model living in a studio in 'A'ali'i. For a few hours, I imagined what it would be like to actually live in such an ...

A 65-year-old tourist from California died from an apparent shark attack in waters off the western coast of Maui in Hawaii, the first shark-related fatality in the state ...

Welcome to the 21st annual Black Book from Hawaii Business magazine – a valuable insight into who are the decision makers, movers and shakers of the ...

KOLOA — The first question posed to Gov. David Ige at Thursday's Kauai Chamber of Commerce luncheon stumped him — for a moment. “What is your favorite ...

MAUI, Hawaii (AP) — The California man killed by a shark in Hawaii over the weekend was a frequent visitor to the islands and an avid scuba diver who had ...

Honolulu's Medical Examiner's office said that pilot Joseph Berridge and 28-year-old Ryan McAuliffe of Chicago were killed in the helicopter crash in Kailua.

Honolulu here we come! Southwest Airlines is now selling tickets to Hawaii from the Bay Area and we are packing our bags because these airfares seem too ...

Hawaii, once home to prominent Jews such as Elias Rosenberg, Bruno Mars, Allegra Goodman and Makua Kai Rothman became a state 60 years ago.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -A lottery for a rare hunting opportunity on Kauai is coming up. The Department of Land and Natural Resources is opening a ...

HONOLULU (AP) - He was Honolulu's Rolex-wearing police chief, an avid surfer who chatted with beat cops in Pidgin, Hawaii's creole language. She was his ...