There's a lot of work that goes on at the State Capitol even before lawmakers gavel in. This "Under the Dome" episode takes you through the behind-the-scenes start of the 86th Texas Legislature ...

The best way to visit the Capitol, the state’s grandest public building, ... An interior view of the inner dome (the Texas star is 218 feet above the rotunda.) Photographs by Wyatt McSpadden.

Last summer, the State Preservation Board decided to restore the Capitol's dome, which was leaking and its color fading. They put up scaffolding in June 2010, repaired the dome and repainted ...

For the past 25 years, the Texas State Capitol ornament has been sold at the Texas Capitol Gift Shop to commemorate the structure's completion 132 years ago. The 25th-anniversary ornament is ...

A Capitol project. Rollman and his team, including girlfriend Bethany Brazzell, were done rebuilding the dome in its new home by 3 p.m. And there the plastic baroque dome will stand tall for the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – If you’ve been to the Texas Capitol in the last year, your visitor photos may include some unsightly scaffolding. So what’s happening at the state capitol building? Well, it ...

Standing stoically in the heart of central Austin is Texas's legislative center, the State Capitol. Opened in 1888, this landmark (made of Texas sunset red granite) stands 14 feet taller than the ...

Critical to the success of the $3.5-million Texas State Capitol Dome & Roof Repairs & Repainting project, Betco Scaffolds, Austin, Texas, provided an intricate scaffold system under a $544,755 ...