The price of a Mega Millions ticket is going up from $2 to $5 beginning April 5, the second increase in the lottery’s 28-year history since its debut as The Big Game in 1996.

A spur-of-the-moment purchase of a Mega Millions ticket left a lucky $1 million winner in “a kind of disbelief,” California Lottery officials said. But it almost didn’t happen. Joaquin Vaughn Redo and his family bought the ticket during a stop in Newport Beach while driving across California, the lottery said in a Wednesday, March 26, news release.

The most recent big Mega Millions winner was a lucky lottery ticket holder in Illinois last Tuesday, who took home a $344 million jackpot. The winner marks the first time since Jan. 18 that someone has hit the Mega Millions jackpot.

The lucky person who landed an over $1.2 billion Mega Millions jackpot in California has been revealed. The California Lottery said her name was Rosemary Casarotti.

She struck it rich in the Golden State. California lottery officials revealed Monday the winner of last year’s $1.2 billion Mega Millions jackpot was Rosemary Casarotti — though she’s shying away from the limelight.

A new version of the Mega Millions lottery will debut in April with a larger jackpot and an increased ticket price.

The California Lottery has confirmed that Rosemary Casarotti is the sole winner of the $1.2 billion Mega Millions jackpot, the largest in the state's history.

California Lottery officials said in a news release that beginning April 8, the cost per game will be $5, and starting jackpots will reset to $50 million.

Mega Millions announced it will debut a new version of its national lottery game after the final drawing of its current jackpot scheduled on April 4. The new version of its game, which is played ...