"I have to look at the safety first," the parish president said. Parades on Mardi Gras day have been canceled in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, and altered in New Orleans due to the dangers posed by ...

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 ...

The annual celebration of Mardi Gras is a Carnival season that begins on Jan. 6 and culminates on Fat Tuesday. Mardi Gras is celebrated with parades, festive attire and the consumption of king cake.

Mardi Gras, also known as Carnival, is a deeply interesting celebration that contrasts excessive eating and drinking starting in January with 40 days of fasting and penance starting on Ash ...

This year’s Mardi Gras, a.k.a. Fat Tuesday, is celebrated March 4. “Mardi Gras is an imported Catholic custom, a religious tradition celebrating the last day of an indulgent Carnival season ...

Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is a rich cultural celebration with origins in ancient pagan rituals, now thriving in New Orleans. Mardi Gras is here, and the celebrations are in full swing.

Around the Gulf Coast, there’s also a pretty good reason to keep it up: Mardi Gras. Given the close proximity to Christmas and the start of the Mardi Gras season, Mardi Gras trees are another ...

Mardi Gras in Louisiana is a beloved holiday, and its also a notorious cultural tradition. Louisiana celebrates Mardi Gras due to the French-Catholic settlers who inhabited Louisiana during the ...

On Monday morning, Lafayette Parish Mayor-President Monique Blanco Boulet, along with the Greater Southwest Louisiana Mardi Gras Association, proudly raised the Mardi Gras flag at Lafayette ...

The Carnival season will end on Mardi Gras, which is now one week away! From parades to colorful beads and masks, there are dozens of traditions involved in Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday.