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Tredici Bakery has king cake-themed desserts on Capital Heights Avenue.

How one Baton Rouge bakery switched it up this king cake season

By Gracelyn Farrar February 13, 2024

What dessert is purple, gold and green all over? Local bakeries know the answer well.But for many years Baton Rouge resident and owner of Tredici Bakery Monica Shaughnessy didn't see the kind of big king...

Patrick F. Taylor sits on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge, La.

Campus-wide outage leaves LSU without power

By Cross Harris February 12, 2024

A disruption in service left LSU's Baton Rouge campus without power Monday afternoon, according to communications from LSU Facility Services. The outage was campus-wide, said Tammy Millican, executive...

Parade goers yell and put their hands up on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, during the Endymion parade in New Orleans, La.

Renaissance Française: The rise, fall and rebirth of French in Louisiana

By Sarah Walton February 8, 2024

Dressed in beads, feathers and masks, Mardi Gras will visit the state Tuesday, Louisiana’s long-held tradition born from French roots.  The French first laid claim in 1682 to the territory that...

Memorial Tower stands tall on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge, La.

What does Louisiana’s congressional redistricting mean for LSU?

By Maddie Scott & Jacob Mathews February 8, 2024

The conclusion of Louisiana's redistricting session in late January not only added a new majority-Black district but also moved LSU and much of East Baton Rouge Parish into a new district.The 6th Congressional...

A maintennce worker makes sure the power cable doesn't get snagged Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, at Atkinson Hall on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge, La.

Sewage backup closes Atkinson Hall on LSU’s campus

By Oliver Butcher February 6, 2024

Atkinson Hall on LSU's Baton Rouge campus closed Tuesday afternoon following a sewage backup affecting building's pipes, according to LSU Executive Director of Facility and Property Oversight Tammy Millican. Staff...

Pamphlets and flyers sit on the front desk of the LSU Women's center Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024 at the LSU Women's Center on Veterans Drive in Baton Rouge. La.

Graduate research shines at EGSA 2024 Mardi Gras Conference

By Connor Reinwald February 6, 2024

The English Graduate Student Association on Feb. 1 kicked off its 34th Annual Mardi Gras Conference, a three-day event for graduate and undergraduate students to show off their research in front of peers,...

Memorial Tower sits in the distance, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU promised paid family leave to all employees. Not everyone’s getting it.

By Piper Hutchinson February 6, 2024

LSU leaders said they would provide paid family leave for all employees starting Jan. 1, but some employees who have requested it have been told the policy hasn’t been approved. The university announced...

Students walk through the Quad on Feb. 2, 2024, on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge, La. 

Back to school: students’ stories from winter break & the semester to come

By Cross Harris February 4, 2024

With a school-canceling cold snap, burst pipes and flooding, LSU’s spring semester started strangely. Now that class has been back for nearly a month, the Reveille interviewed students to find out...

Memorial Tower stands tall on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU-led consortium secures $160 million grant for energy transition initiative

By Ashlynn Baillio February 3, 2024

The National Science Foundation announced Jan. 29 that the LSU-led consortium Future Use of Energy in Louisiana had secured a monumental $160 million grant. The funding, awarded through the NSF Engines...

Student Senators listen to meeting business Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, in the LSU Student Union in Baton Rouge, La.

‘Work to be done’: SG resolution would request online DEI statement

By Cross Harris February 1, 2024

A resolution proposed at Wednesday’s Student Senate meeting would request the university add an “expansive” diversity, equity and inclusion statement to the Student Government website.The...

Memorial Tower sits in the distance, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge, La.

The mystery of Memorial Tower’s long-missing original chimes

By Morgan Carter February 1, 2024

For decades, 18 metal chimes rang out of Louisiana State University’s Memorial Tower, filling campus with the "Westminster Quarters" every quarter hour. Renovations in the 1980s changed...

 The Louisiana Supreme Court Building on Royal Street in New Orleans, Dec. 7, 2021. 

5th Circuit grants motion against Black voters to rehear case over La. supreme court seat

By Wesley Muller February 1, 2024

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to rehear a decades-old voting rights case that established the only majority-Black state supreme court district in Louisiana, according to the court’s...