New Orleans moved up its two biggest Mardi Gras Day parades and cut down their routes to try to avoid the potentially ...

More than 55 million people across the central and southern US are at risk of severe weather on Tuesday as a violent storm ...

Officials are rushing to reschedule Mardi Gras celebrations and warning revelers against bringing umbrellas and tents as ...

Thousands of revelers in outlandish costumes will fill the streets of New Orleans as the city celebrates Mardi Gras Day. The culmination of a weekslong carnival season is known as Fat Tuesday. The day ...

There will be plenty of parades around New Orleans on Tuesday, March 4. There will even be parades for dog lovers after the official carnival season ends. Here's when and where to catch these parades, ...

Mardi Gras was first celebrated in New Orleans by the flamboyant Grand Marquis de Vaudreuil, who created the first “bal masque” or costumed Mardi Gras in the 1740s. That tradition is going on today ...

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