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Today’s edition · Wed., Nov. 4

Montana Millionaire sales are postponed, with no new date yet

Plus, voters seemed ready to approve a park purchase for a school bus barn.

The Good Day Billings team1 story13 sources4 min read

LotteryTop story

Montana Millionaire ticket sales are postponed, and there's no new date yet

The lottery acknowledged Montana Millionaire problems 30 minutes after sales opened

  1. Nov. 1Montana Millionaire tickets go on sale at 5:30 a.m.
  2. Nov. 1The Montana Lottery first acknowledges problems with its system at 6 a.m.
  3. Nov. 1The lottery announces at 11 a.m. that it is postponing the game.
  4. Nov. 2The lottery says no drawings have happened and more instant wins will be added.

Sources: KTVQ, NonStop Local Billings, Montana State News Network

If you lined up for Montana Millionaire on Sunday, the wait isn't over. Technical issues forced the Montana Lottery to postpone the game, and there's still no new sales date or time.

Jason Ans took the fifth spot in line at the Circle K on Grand Avenue just before 4 a.m. and waited nearly seven hours. The lottery blamed its new central gaming system, which it moved to in September of 2026. It struggled with so many transactions at once, and instant-win prizes went out faster than designed.

  • Drawings: none held yet, so no winners are chosen
  • Tickets bought Sunday: still valid, so keep yours safe
  • Instant wins: still redeemable; retailers scan the barcode
  • New sales date: not set; the lottery promises notice

Montana Millionaire sold 12,919 tickets before the pause

12,919
tickets sold before sales paused
991
of them were $100 instant wins
1,019
of them were $500 instant wins
$500,000
estimated worth of instant wins put back in the game

Source: NonStop Local Billings

The lottery is working with , which built the new system. The lottery's director says the issues weren't the result of a cybersecurity incident, the Gazette reports. Montana State News Network has the lottery's answers to players' common questions.

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News Notes

Bus barn

Voters in Yellowstone County seemed willing to approve Billings Public Schools' purchase of a 15-acre park in initial returns Tuesday night. The park is planned as the site of a school bus barn. Billings Gazette

Animal shelter

Billings is looking to adopt a "limited sheltering" model, which would limit city funding to the intake of dogs and certain animals, such as dangerous, injured or abandoned ones. The city's contract with the expired at the end of June. The old shelter building on Monad Road is now used by the city for animal control. Billings GazetteKTVQ

Health plans

If you buy insurance through the Marketplace, enrollment for 2027 coverage opened Nov. 1 on HealthCare.gov. An analysis estimates individual-market premiums are rising an average of 22.6% per person before subsidies. PacificSource is leaving the market at the end of the year, which leaves Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana and Mountain Health CO-OP. Q2 News wants to hear from Billings-area shoppers at News@ktvq.com. KTVQ

Football

Billings Central, the East's No. 2 seed at 8-2, plays at top Southwest seed Hamilton at 7 p.m. on Fri., Nov. 6, in a Class A state quarterfinal. Central's losses came to Laurel (29-31) and top-ranked Sidney (14-23). Bitterroot Star

Hamilton is 7-⁠1 and Billings Central is 8-⁠2 ahead of Friday's quarterfinal

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1Losses2
4Final Class A poll rank5

Source: Bitterroot Star

MSUB soccer

Tenley Leffler was named GNAC Freshman of the Year in women's soccer. The Montana State University Billings team had three players honored with All-Great Northwest Athletic Conference honors, announced Tuesday. Billings Gazette

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The Wrap

The Yellowstone looks calm most days, but in June 1918 it did something else entirely. A June 13, 1918, Billings Gazette headline called the flood the river's "worst rampage recorded in history", and it tore apart bridges along the banks. Quiet rivers can hold some wild history.

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Montana Millionaire sales are postponed, with no new date yet

Plus, voters seemed ready to approve a park purchase for a school bus barn.

The TLDR

  1. Montana Millionaire sales are postponed with no new date
  2. Voters seemed ready to OK a park purchase for a school bus barn
  3. Billings looks at a 'limited sheltering' animal model
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