Mardi Gras 2025 may not have been the biggest on record, but it was the biggest post-pandemic Carnival, with hotel occupancy ...

People gather to see pets dressed up in costumes, during the last Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans this Carnival season ...

With the sun rising, people stumbled out of bars and saluted the trash collectors. A drunken couple shrieked and leaped onto ...

Local authorities have established the French Quarter Enhanced Security Zone Friday through Ash Wednesday in an attempt to ...

The celebrations this year were dampened due to weather concerns, but people still came out in New Orleans to party.

There was never any question that Mardi Gras would go forward after the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans. But some ...

The promise from authorities for more security threatened to conflict with the city’s anything-goes sensibilities, and some ...

Thousands of revelers in outlandish costumes are filling the streets of New Orleans as the city celebrates Mardi Gras Day ...

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

While many Americans may know the festival's roots in French culture, the first festival held in the US was in Alabama.

Happy Mardi Gras to all the glue gun wielders and DIY costumers in New Orleans. We loved seeing your creations this season.

Waste from Mardi Gras awaiting collection in the French Quarter of New Orleans, on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jack Brook) Leander Nunez, 54, steered a massive truck onto Bourbon ...