The Mega Millions jackpot for Tuesday’s lottery drawing has jumped to an estimated $54 million, with a cash option of $25.7 million. The drawing will be held at 10:59 p.m. and televised on WABC-7 in New York City and Fox 29 in Philadelphia. NJ.com will publish the winning numbers after the drawing.

You watch the Mega Millions drawings live from our WSB-TV studios each and every Tuesday and Friday. Tickets for Mega Millions will go up from $2 to $5 after Friday night’s drawing. Channel 2′s Steve Gehlbach spoke with lottery players at a Shell gas station.

The price for playing Mega Millions more than doubled for drawings starting with Tuesday’s, but lottery officials are betting that the swollen jackpots they’re expecting will catch the public’s attention and lead to an accompanying surge in sales “People really want big jackpots ,

The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the "Powerball" game were: 20-23-48-59-66, Powerball: 4, Power Play: 2 (twenty, twenty-three, forty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty-six, Powerball: four, Power Play: two) Estimated jackpot: $55 million For more lottery results,

The winning numbers have been announced for the Monday, April 7 Powerball drawing.The estimated jackpot is $54 million with a $26.1 million cash option after the jackpot was claimed in a recent drawing by a player in California.

Here are some of the other changes that are happening with the new Mega Millions game: Improved overall odds going from 1:24 to 1:23 after the removal of one gold Mega Ball. Impro

A lucky Powerball player in Colorado won $100,000, just missing the $55 million jackpot, lottery officials said. The ticket matched four of five winning numbers, the Powerball and the Power Play in the drawing Monday,

With no winner last week, the jackpot for the Mega Millions lottery has risen to $54 million ahead of tonight’s drawing.

Lottery players are going to have a shot at more billion-dollar jackpots under new Mega Millions rules that go into effect with Tuesday’s drawing.