Highlights included a soaring centerpiece, a program with personalized messages, and a popular potato bar. Bossier City Mayor Tommy Chandler praised the event as "awesome" and "an extravaganza ...

Mardi Gras itself is a single day, always the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. But the Carnival season (essentially Mardi Gras season) begins in early January and leads up to Mardi Gras.

Mardi Gras festivities are underway in New Orleans early Tuesday morning despite a forecast of severe weather expected later in the day. The city’s iconic Fat Tuesday parades are adapting to the ...

Bourque, who was fully decked out in a Mardi Gras costume, explained that the parade is a tradition that brings people together year after year. She added that her costume held a special, personal ...

Mardi Gras is officially upon us! The annual celebration is one of the most iconic cultural events in the United States, known for exuberant parades, festive music and indulgent foods.

The Mardi Gras revelry in this city is known the world over. New Orleans welcomes millions of visitors during carnival season and more than 50 parades roll down the main streets of St Charles and ...

Mardi Gras was observed for the first time in the New World by French pioneers at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff, the first settlement of Mobile way back in 1703. And it only grew from there.

JEFFERSON PARISH. DISCOURAGED IS HOW MANY FELT AFTER LEARNING PARADES IN JEFFERSON PARISH, LIKE THE AUGUST PARADE, WERE CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER CONCERNS, THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS WIND ...

In New Orleans for the Mardi Gras, I, surely, wasn’t ready for the mad ride and ceaseless exhilaration. Think 250 million beads being tossed around randomly. Edible underwear as souvenirs.

From high-energy parades to colorful beads and masks, there are dozens of traditions involved in Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday. The holiday which is less than a week away, is just ahead of ...

The Alexandria Mardi Gras Association's Krewes Parade will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 2. Get ready to laissez bon temp rouler as Mardi Gras festivities get into full swing starting Friday.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Fox 8 Weather Authority team is monitoring a potential severe weather threat developing around Mardi Gras. A strong storm system could bring damaging winds, heavy rain ...