The Montana Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at Dec. 8, 2025, results for each game:

Winning Powerball numbers from Dec. 8 drawing

08-32-52-56-64, Powerball: 23, Power Play: 2

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Winning Lucky For Life numbers from Dec. 8 drawing

11-14-28-30-41, Lucky Ball: 11

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Winning Lotto America numbers from Dec. 8 drawing

07-10-32-33-35, Star Ball: 03, ASB: 02

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Winning Big Sky Bonus numbers from Dec. 8 drawing

18-19-22-24, Bonus: 10

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When are the Montana Lottery drawings held?

• Powerball: 8:59 p.m. MT on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
• Mega Millions: 9 p.m. MT on Tuesday and Friday.
• Lucky For Life: 8:38 p.m. MT daily.
• Lotto America: 9 p.m. MT on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
• Big Sky Bonus: 7:30 p.m. MT daily.
• Powerball Double Play: 8:59 p.m. MT on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
• Montana Cash: 8 p.m. MT on Wednesday and Saturday.

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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — If you’ve driven on the streets of Las Vegas, you’ve seen people running red lights.

Whether it’s impairment, impatience or insolence, failing to stop has had real consequences, and sometimes deadly ones.

That’s one of the reasons a viewer named Nicole wrote to us to ask why Nevada doesn’t use red-light cameras, which snap a picture of scofflaws and send them a ticket in the mail.

It’s a common question, one that’s been asked many times, by locals and lawmakers alike.

Here’s the story:

Back in 1999, automated traffic cameras were banned in Nevada. Legislative committee minutes from that year show then-state Sen. Mark James, R-Clark County, warning about Big Brother.

“He urged the [Senate Transportation] committee to be careful to not set us on a path of compromising the civil liberties of our citizens,” the minutes read. “Senator James then stressed the need to recognize possible consequences to our actions if they, as legislators, were to permit law enforcement to infringe on our rights.”

James’s arguments carried the day, and the law he backed has remained undisturbed for a quarter century.

But not for lack of trying.

Lawmakers have considered bills to create exceptions or repeal the ban on automated traffic cameras no fewer than 11 times in the years since it was put in place.

Each time, the bill has failed to pass both houses of the Legislature, even when circumscribed to apply only to school zones, construction zones or railroad crossings. Restrictions, including requiring an officer to review each photo before a ticket is sent — and limiting the fine to between $50 and $100 — have failed to sway lawmakers in libertarian Nevada.

Until this year, that is.

In the 2025 Legislature, three bills were introduced. One would have allowed the cameras in construction zones, where workers face dangerous conditions, especially on freeways. Another would have allowed cameras in areas where traditional law enforcement methods have failed.

Both those bills were rejected, although the construction-zone bill passed the Assembly and made it to the Senate floor before dying.

Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill, who strongly supported the red-light camera bill in testimony before lawmakers, admitted he fell short in his October speech announcing his bid for re-election.

“And listen, I will fully admit to you that I went up to the Legislature this last session and testified in front of them on red-light cameras, and I literally got laughed out of the building,” McMahill said. “I don’t deny that. But what I will also tell you is that I’ll be back again next time. I’m going to come back with a better plan. And I’m going to continue to ask those other elected officials to have some level of responsibility for the ways people are dying in our community.”

But one bill carving out an exception to the ban did pass the Legislature: Assembly Bill 527 will allow cameras to be mounted on school buses, to catch people who speed by when red lights are flashing.

The Clark County School District said Monday that it is in the process of hiring a vendor to install the cameras, and expects to present a proposal to the board of trustees in January.

So while red light cameras won’t be used on Las Vegas streets, on freeways, in school zones or at railroad crossings, they will be used on buses starting next year, the first exception to the camera ban in decades.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – With years of well-documented problems for the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department, New Mexico is making its first watchdog agency to monitor the department, and that office is finally taking shape. 

“It’s very much needed right now, and I think that New Mexico is making some good moves and ways to look out for child well-being in this state,” said Rep. Michelle Paulene Abeyta (D-To’hajilee). 

It’s an effort to keep a closer eye on continued problems in New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department, a department long criticized for failing to protect children. Under the control of the New Mexico Attorney General, the “Office of the Child Advocate” is expected to open next year, and the committee tasked with picking that leader is well underway in its work. A bipartisan group of lawmakers backed House Bill 5, creating New Mexico’s “Office of the Child Advocate,” and a handful of candidates vying to lead that office have already been interviewed.  

“The candidate pool was very impressive, almost every candidate met the minimum qualifications of having the social work background, a law background, or a psychology background, and combined with that, education was years of experience,” said Rep. Abeyta. 

A To’hajiilee democrat, Rep. Michelle Paulene Abeyta, is part of the seven-member committee doing the interviews. The national search is now down to eight candidates.  

“The Office of the Child Advocate will be focused on complaints that we’ve all been hearing about in the media, most recently, children sleeping in CYFD offices will be a huge one, and then also looking at what we’re doing to help support families with family reunification,” said Abeyta. 

The Office of the Child Advocate exists within the New Mexico Department of Justice, which right now said they’ve been taking on an administrative role. 

“We as you know have broad statutory authority in the state of New Mexico and for the Child Advocate to be sending us investigations, and recommendations, and tips and things of that nature, it makes sense for our office to tackle since we do have a broad range of statutory obligations,” said Lauren Rodriguez, Chief of Staff for the New Mexico Department of Justice. 

The interview team is hoping to narrow down the pool of candidates down from eight before sending their suggestions to the governor, who will have the ultimate say in who leads the “office.” The governor is expected to make that pick by January.