Get ready for beads, beats, and bites! Discover the best Mardi Gras celebrations, from parades to crawfish feasts and toe-tapping live music.

A major cross-country storm is moving east, bringing thunderstorms to the South from Texas to New Orleans on Mardi Gras Day before heading to the East Coast on Wednesday.

Powerful storms tore roofs off an apartment building and a nursing home in a small town in Oklahoma and threatened more communities across the country

While Louisiana is home to one of the world’s most renowned Mardi Gras celebrations, Texas embraces the Carnival season on a smaller scale. Unlike the citywide revelry of New Orleans ...

New Orleans takes Mardi Gras seriously, with traditions including king cake and parades beginning in January and lasting for weeks until the actual holiday itself. Here's everything to know. This year, Mardi Gras, which translates from French to "Fat Tuesday," is on March 4.