Kentucky Lottery Approves Online Sales, New Keno Game

Kenny Colston — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:11:38 +0000

The Kentucky Lottery Corporation is moving ahead with a new Keno game and online lottery sales, in hopes the games will be profitable.

The lottery board hopes to generate $85 million dollars a year with the new games by 2023.

State Treasurer Todd Hollenbach spearheaded the effort to expand to Keno and online sales as a way to help generate more revenue for the state. He says the implementation will take time, but money should start coming in shortly afterward.

"So you're probably not going to see anything of any significance until 2014. It takes a little while."

State House Democrats have said additional lottery revenues could pay for the state's underfunded pension system. Finding a way to fund pension reforms has been a major cause of disagreement in Frankfort this year.

Unclaimed Property Checks Top $726,000 in Kentucky

Dan Modlin — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:42:47 +0000

More than one thousand Kentuckians are receiving checks this week from the Unclaimed Property Division of the Kentucky Treasury. State officials say the checks range in value from four cents to $43,000.