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Gov. Jeff Landry and state lawmakers have put $31.7 million toward refurbishing the outside of the Louisiana State Capitol.
Gov. Jeff Landry and state lawmakers have put $31.7 million toward refurbishing the outside of the Louisiana State Capitol, Louisiana Illuminator writes.  The money—part of the annual state ...
The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...
Every state has a capitol that houses its state legislature. Many are domed buildings similar to the US Capitol, but others ...
President Trump has been urging lawmakers to send him the bill to sign into law by July 4, but also acknowledged the timeline ...
Thankfully, House Republicans stood tall for the American energy sector by passing President Donald Trump’s “One Big, ...
Mahmood’s artwork, “Echoes of the Crescent City,” blends his South Asian heritage and Louisiana culture. It will be on display at the U.S. Capitol building for a year. His artwork was also inspired by ...
April 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine, File) Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry addresses members of the House and Senate on opening day of a legislative special session focusing on crime, Feb. 19, 2024, in ...
The Louisiana Capitol Building, April 8, 2021. (Wes Muller/Louisiana Illuminator). A Louisiana legislative committee has killed two bills that would have added eight new majority Black districts to ...
Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., began her remarks to roughly 40 recently laid off or fired federal employees who assembled on the steps of the Capitol Building on Tuesday with “Hello everybody! How ...
Florida joins Louisiana, Nebraska and North Dakota as the only states with a capitol tower design. April 4, 1978 – The first session of the legislature in the new Capitol begins.
Police are investigating after a man’s body was found in Baton Rouge near the Louisiana State Capitol.