Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. New Orleans takes Mardi Gras seriously, with traditions including king cake and parades beginning in January and lasting for weeks until the ...

NEW ORLEANS — Happy Mardi Gras! Parades are rolling this Fat Tuesday. Many parades are on a modified parade route to avoid anticipated severe weather. Stay here for all the live updates from ...

Three parades will roll Thursday night in New Orleans with scores of masked riders on colorful floats. More processions will continue every day through Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday. Costumed revelers ...

(WVUE) - Runners, floats and parade-goers are set to converge ... where they will disband. In New Orleans, most of the city’s Mardi Gras Indians will show off their 2025 suits again on their ...

For 40 days every spring, Christians observe the season of repentance and fasting known as Lent. In New Orleans, the change from Mardi Gras to Lent is striking.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The good times and parades still rolled in New Orleans for Mardi Gras Day celebrations early Tuesday, ahead of expected severe winds, thunderstorms and tornado warnings in the ...

New Orleans moved up its two biggest Mardi Gras Day parades and cut down their routes to try to avoid the potentially destructive weather. Police were also expected to keep the hundreds of ...

New Orleans Saints players rode with the 2,300 members of the Krewe of Tucks as they presented their 57th annual parade on Saturday, March 1 during the 2025 Mardi Gras season. New Orleans Saints ...

NEW ORLEANS — Carnival season 2025 is approaching its climax in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast, with big parades rolling down the main routes as some revelers get fancied up for formal ...