New Orleans takes Mardi Gras seriously, with traditions including king cake and parades beginning in January and lasting for ...

Officials are rushing to reschedule Mardi Gras celebrations as powerful storms with a threat of tornadoes are expected to ...

Powerful storms with a threat of tornadoes are expected to punch through Louisiana and other parts of the South on Tuesday ...

Mardi Gras is a long-standing tradition, filled with fun, families and often, a lot of booze. But there's something really ...

By the 1850s, a group of men in New Orleans established a secret society to help celebrate the holiday. The city’s first ...

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

The Carnival season, or Mardi Gras season, officially begins on Epiphany, Jan. 6, and lasts through Fat Tuesday.

Mardi Gras gives people the opportunity to celebrate before the Lenten season, where people become more disciplined and give up habits for 40 days.

Stone had left Mobile and was on her way back to Atlanta when the Sprinter van she was in was involved in a crash in ...