The cost of a Mega Millions lottery ticket will soon more than double, but officials said they’re confident players won’t mind paying more after changes that will lead to larger prizes and more frequent winners.

A winning Powerball ticket was sold at a Publix in South Florida, Lottery officials confirmed Tuesday.

An immigrant from Laos who has been battling cancer won an enormous $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot in Oregon earlier this month.

Someone in Oregon has claimed the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot won last weekend, which is the eighth-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.

The Powerball lottery drawing has been delayed to complete procedures required before the numbers are announced.

Powerball is about to match a record for lottery drawings with a stretch of more than three months without a jackpot winner.

A Florida grocery shopper is cashing out big after they won $1 million, before taxes anyway, playing the Powerball.

The Powerball jackpot has increased to an estimated $865 million after yet another drawing without a big winner, continuing a winless streak that dates to New Year’s Day.

The stars have aligned in the lottery universe like never before, with two jackpots totaling nearly $2 billion.

A Publix shopper is cashing out big after they won $1 million, before taxes anyway, playing the Powerball.

The Powerball jackpot has rolled over to an estimated $800 million, one of the largest in its history.

The winning numbers for a nearly $1 billion Mega Millions lottery prize will be drawn Friday night, offering sudden riches for any lucky player who matches them and almost certain disappoint for everyone else.

If you’re feeling some St. Patrick’s Day magic, you might want to buy a lottery ticket. Mega Millions and Powerball have racked up some massive jackpots after weeks of rollovers.

The Powerball jackpot has rolled over to an estimated $600 million.

The Powerball jackpot has rolled over to an estimated $559 million.

The Powerball jackpot has rolled over to an estimated $521 million.

A ticket sold in Michigan is the sole winning ticket for the first Powerball jackpot drawing of the year, with the lucky ticket holder winning an estimated $842 million, according to the Michigan Lottery.

The Powerball jackpot has rolled over to an estimated $810 million for the Monday, New Year's Day, drawing.

The Powerball jackpot has jumped to $572 million, just in time for the Holidays.

The Powerball jackpot has jumped to $572 million, just in time for the Holidays.

The Powerball jackpot has jumped to $535 million, just in time for the Holidays.

A South Florida shopper is cashing out big after they won playing the Powerball in Miami-Dade County.

It’s been a lucky week for two Publix shoppers here in South Florida.

No one won Monday night’s $1.55 billion top Powerball prize, but a shopper in South Florida is now $2 million richer — before taxes, anyway.

Another Powerball drawing, another chance at a jackpot that is inching toward a billion dollars.

The winner of the $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot in August has come forward to claim the prize, officials said Wednesday.

The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $835 million after no one beat the immense odds and won the giant prize.

The Powerball jackpot has rolled over to $725 million after no winners were announced in Wednesday’s drawing.

The Powerball jackpot has rolled over to $672 million after no winners were announced in Monday's drawing.

There is no mystery why the Mega Millions jackpot has grown to $1.55 billion, making it the third-largest ever.

A Florida man is in the money after winning the $1 million prize in the Powerball drawing, Lottery officials confirmed Friday.

Your chances of winning the lottery are extremely slim — even as more and more eye top prizes soaring to jaw-dropping heights.

The new jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing would be the seventh highest in U.S. history and the third largest for Powerball.

The new jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing would be the seventh highest in U.S. history and the third largest for Powerball.

Convenience stores are swamped as the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots soar to some of their largest in the history of the games.

Winning the lottery is actually a curse? It has been the case for many winners.

An estimated $725 million jackpot will be at stake for the next Powerball drawing after no winning ticket was sold for the Monday drawing.

Another giant lottery prize is up for grabs.

Thinking of lining up at the mini-mart for a shot at a $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot.

An estimated $1.1 billion Mega Millions jackpot drawing has people lined up at convenience stores across the country to buy tickets.

Call it the Golden Age of lottery jackpots.

A woman from Orlando, Florida, claimed a $1 million prize from a Powerball drawing that occurred over the summer, the Florida Lottery announced Monday.

Someone who bought a Powerball ticket in Southern California has won a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot.

The estimated $1.9 billion Powerball jackpot is nearly $400 million larger than the previous record jackpot and will keep growing until someone finally wins the prize.

The Powerball jackpot has reached a record estimated high of $1.6 billion, leading longtime players and first-timers alike to flock to buy tickets ahead of Saturday night’s drawing.

Strong sales boosted a Powerball jackpot to an estimated $1.6 billion, making it the largest lottery prize in history.

The largest lottery prize in U.S. history has people across the country clamoring for a chance to win a mega jackpot.

Lottery players hoping to win this week's massive Powerball jackpot might be smart to dream of an annuity, rather than a truckload of cash.

Perplexed that it seems no one can win the gigantic $1.5 billion Powerball prize.

Think you’re a sure bet to win an estimated $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot.

There were no big treats from the Halloween night Powerball drawing, as none of the tickets sold matched all six numbers.

The Powerball jackpot keeps getting larger because players keep losing.

A massive lottery jackpot got a little bigger as the top Powerball prize climbed to an estimated $825 million ahead of Saturday night’s drawing.

No one won an estimated $700 million Powerball jackpot, meaning the big prize will grow to an estimated $800 million for the next drawing.

The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $700 million after there was no winner on Monday.

The eighth-largest lottery jackpot will be up for grabs when numbers are drawn for an estimated $700 million Powerball grand prize.

Across the U.S., state lottery systems use that revenue to boost education, tourism, transportation and much more.

A woman from Israel will be heading home with a lot of extra cash after she hit for a $1 million prize playing Powerball while in Broward County.

A South Florida resident is one of the newest millionaires from the multistate Powerball drawing.

Powerball tickets sold in Wisconsin and California were winners of the latest jackpot and will split $632 million.

It's the seventh-largest Powerball jackpot ever.

A Broward County resident is celebrating a $2 million Powerball score this Thanksgiving.

A woman from Gainesville won $1 million in the Sept. 29 Powerball drawing, Florida Lottery announced Wednesday.

Lottery officials say that a Miami man matched all five of the white ball numbers — but not the Powerball — in the Oct. 4 drawing of the multistate game.

Florida Lottery says a Powerball ticket worth $1 million was sold at a Fresco y Más liquor store in Miami-Dade County ahead of Monday's drawing.

After 40 drawings without a big Powerball winner, a single ticket sold in California matched all six numbers and was the lucky winner of the nearly $700 million jackpot prize.

The biggest lottery prize in more than eight months is growing larger after no ticket matched all five numbers and the Powerball in Saturday night’s drawing.

The giant Powerball jackpot has grown even bigger, with officials raising the estimated payout to $635 million ahead of Saturday night’s drawing.

The Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $620 million after nearly four months without a big winner.

Powerball is up to $472 million after going unclaimed Sunday, while Mega Millions is up to $432 million, lottery officials say.

Kenneth Morgan of Jacksonville was cleaning his home this weekend when says he just happened to stumble upon a Powerball ticket from April that was worth $1 million.

Florida Lottery says the person who won a $286 million jackpot on the June 5 Powerball drawing still hasn’t come forward. Is it yours?

Florida Lottery revealed Monday that the winning Powerball ticket from Saturday’s $286 million drawing was purchased at a Circle K in Jacksonville.

A $28 million Florida Lotto ticket was sold in Davie, and state lottery officials are still waiting for the jackpot winner to come forward. The lucky quick-pick ticket was sold at the Griffin 441 Shell located at 4801 South State Road 7, Florida Lottery says. For selling the winning ticket, the Shell station will get $100,000 in bonus commission. AdThere’s an even luckier winner in the Tampa area right now, as a Powerball jackpot ticket worth $238 million was sold on that side of the state for Saturday night’s drawing. That ticket was sold at the Publix on North Nebraska Avenue in Lutz.

Idaho Lottery Director Jeff Anderson addresses the House State Affairs Committee at the Statehouse in Boise, Idaho on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. The panel killed legislation that would have allowed the Powerball game with multi-million dollar jackpots to continue in the state. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler)BOISE, Idaho – Idaho lawmakers fearing foreign participation in the Powerball lottery killed legislation on Wednesday that would have allowed the game with huge jackpots to continue in the state after a run of more than 30 years. The move came after Idaho Lottery officials sought a change in state law because Powerball is expanding to include Australia in 2021 and Britain in 2022. Some Idaho lawmakers said they feared that the odds of an Idaho resident winning would be reduced with more players.

The multistate Powerball game had a $2 million winner in South Florida last month. CUTLER BAY, Fla. – Just days after the $731.1 million Powerball winner was sold up in Maryland a few weeks back, a South Florida man had his own significant score in the popular lottery game. Everett Kurtz, 68, of Cutler Bay, won a $2 million prize from the Powerball drawing held Jan. 23 — the next drawing after the nine-figure jackpot in Maryland. Kurtz’s ticket matched all five of the white ball numbers but did not match the Powerball, Florida Lottery officials said. Florida Lottery says that since the state joined the Powerball game in 2009, it has generated more than $2.2 billion in contributions to education statewide.

A patron, who did not want to give his name, uses the lottery ticket vending kiosk at a Smoker Friendly store to purchase tickets for the Mega Millions lottery drawing, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, in Cranberry Township, Pa. The jackpot for the Mega Millions lottery game has grown to $1 billion ahead of Friday night's drawing after more than four months without a winner. It’s only the third time a lottery jackpot has grown so large, but much has changed since the last time such a big prize was up for grabs in 2018. After a peak in October 2018, Medenica said sales of the big lottery games dropped about 50%, prompting talk among lottery officials about jackpot fatigue. It’s hard to fathom how unlikely it is to beat odds of one in 292.2 million for Powerball or one in 302.5 million for Mega Millions.

It had been more than four months since anyone won the Powerball, allowing the game's jackpot to grow so large. Just who will collect the Powerball prize may never be known: Maryland is one of the states that allows winners to remain anonymous. The Powerball jackpot came only a day after nobody won the $970 million Mega Millions prize, the third-largest prize in U.S. history. The biggest prize was a $1.58 billion Powerball jackpot won by three people in 2016. After the Powerball win, the new jackpot has a $15 million cash value.

Hardik Kalra, of Des Moines, Iowa, poses for a photo with his Mega Millions and Powerball lottery tickets. The Powerball jackpot is the fifth-largest ever, and it will come only a day after nobody won the even-larger Mega Millions prize, which now stands at $970 million. The biggest prize was a $1.58 billion Powerball jackpot won by three people in 2016. Most winners opt for cash prizes, which for Mega Millions would be $716.3 million and $546 million for Powerball. Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

And since no one picked all the winning numbers in Mega Millions on Friday night, that’s up to a whopping $850 million. You may have won something Saturday night: Here are the Powerball numbers, so check that ticket anyway: 14-20,-39-65,-67, and a Powerball of 2. The Mega Millions prize, $850 million, is the second largest prize in game history. The odds of winning Mega Millions are 1 in 302 million and those folks that took home $1 million by matching five numbers? Winning any prize in Mega Millions, according to lottery officials, is 1 in 24.

MIAMI – Forgive us if this doesn’t get you quite as excited as the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots in the news, but a Miami man has scored a $1 million top prize on a scratch-off ticket. Jaunza Kurtz, 60, hit it big on a $5 ticket in the $1,000,000 Monopoly Jackpot game, Florida Lottery officials announced. Kurtz bought the lucky ticket from Murphy USA at 17680 NW 2nd Ave. in Miami Gardens. According to Florida Lottery, scratch-offs make up about 75% of their ticket sales and generated over $1 billion for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund in fiscal year 2019-20. ALSO SEEMiami man starts 2021 with $1 million scratch-off prizeFort Lauderdale man wins $5 million top prize on scratch-off from Publix

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, file photo, a customer shows off a Mega Millions lottery ticket after purchasing it, in Orlando, Fla. The next drawing for Mega Millions is Friday night, when a $750 million prize will be up for grabs. The next Mega Millions drawing is Friday night, when an estimated $750 million prize will be up for grabs. The drawing for an estimated $640 million Powerball jackpot will be Saturday night. Your odds of winning either jackpot is exceedingly small, at 1 in 292.2 million for Powerball and 1 in 302.5 million for Mega Millions.

A billboard advertises the jackpots of the Powerball and Mega Millions lotteries, in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Numbers for Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing were: 4-19-23-25-49 and a Powerball of 14. The Powerball prize drawing was only a day after no one won a $625 million Mega Millions jackpot, causing that prize to grow to $750 million ahead of the next drawing on Friday night. The Mega Millions prize is now the fifth-largest in U.S. history. Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A billboard advertises the jackpots of the Powerball and Mega Millions lotteries, in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Winning numbers for Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing were: 4-19-23-25-49 and a Powerball of 14. The Powerball prize drawing comes only a day after no one won a $625 million Mega Millions jackpot, causing that prize to grow to $750 million ahead the next drawing on Friday night. The Mega Millions prize is now the fifth-largest in U.S. history. Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Mega Millions $625 million jackpot is the largest lottery prize in nearly two years. The winning numbers in Tuesday night’s drawing of the Mega Millions game were: 12-14-26-28-33, Mega Ball: 09. Nearly all jackpot winners actually take the cash option, which would be an estimated $458.8 million for Mega Millions and $411.4 million for Powerball. They're even steeper for Mega Millions, at one in 302.5 million. Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A digital billboard in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, shows jackpots for the Mega Millions and Powerball games. Lottery players have a chance to win the largest jackpots in nearly two years as Mega Millions has grown to $600 million and Powerball has climbed to $550 million. The projected Mega Millions grand prize is the eighth largest in U.S. history, and the Powerball jackpot is the 12th biggest. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are one in 292.2 million, and the chances are even worse for Mega Millions at one in 302.5 million. Mega Millions and Powerball are both played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – The Powerball jackpot rolled over to $550 million Saturday night when there was no grand prize winner. Saturday night's jackpot was worth $470 million. (WPLG)The last big Powerball jackpot was in March of 2019 when $768.4 million was won in Wisconsin. No one picked all of Friday night’s winning numbers, so that jackpot has reached $600 million, for only the fourth time in that game’s history. Powerball was introduced in January of 2009 with an estimated $105 million jackpot, while Mega Millions had its first drawing on May 17, 2013, with the win estimated at $190 million.

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – Publix stores were lucky for Powerball ticket buyers in Wednesday’s drawing. Three Publix stores in Florida sold winning Powerball tickets, but the big winner? Boynton Beach, where the nation’s lone winning ticket was sold at the 4770 North Congress Avenue supermarket for a win of (wait for it) $168.5 million. In Sunny Isles Beach, someone bought a Powerball ticket that won them $100,000 at Publix at 18320 Collins Avenue. Two $50,000 Powerball tickets from the same drawing were sold at a Publix in Poinciana, Fla., and another in Gainesville.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – The winner of a $1 million Powerball Jackpot prize bought the lucky ticket in Broward County’s city of Coconut Creek, the Florida Lottery announced on Thursday night. The owner of M&S Food Store, at 4400 West Sample Rd., will receive $1,000 for selling the winning ticket. The winner of the $394 million jackpot bought the ticket at a 7-Eleven in Bonita Springs, a city in southwest Florida. The owner of that store will receive $100,000.

(KMOV) -- A bartender in Missouri won't soon forget a tip one of her regular customers left for her: a Powerball ticket that won $50,000. The next day, the bar's lottery terminal alerted them that they had sold a big winning ticket. It turns out that winning ticket was Russey's. Her tickets matched four of the five white-ball number drawn on Oct. 19, plus the Powerball. Missouri Lottery said Russey's $50,000 ticket is the 40th sold in Missouri, and the second sold in O'Fallon in 2019.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Lottery players will have a shot at a $700 million Powerball jackpot that ranks as the second-largest in U.S. history. The jackpot is second only to a $1.6 billion prize won in January 2016. The $700 million prize reflects the annuity option, paid over 29 years. Odds of winning the jackpot are one in 292.2 million. Powerball is played in 44 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

MIAMI – It's time again to start thinking about which private island you'll buy as the Powerball jackpot has grown to almost half-a-billion dollars. After more than two months without a winner, the Powerball jackpot has grown to $435 million. Of course, the numbers are not close (yet) to the record $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot back won with 3 tickets back in 2016, but it is not too early to dream. If the numbers stay the way they are, a cash value payout of Saturday's jackpot would come to $237.1 million. As always, you can watch the Powerball drawing at 10:59 p.m. on Saturday on Local 10.