NEW ORLEANS - Coronavirus-related limits on access to Bourbon Street, shuttered bars and frigid weather all were expected to prevent what the city usually craves at the end of Mardi Gras season — ...

With Fat Tuesday a week in our rearview mirror, the Mardi Gras funk that gripped the city has abated. Attention now is focused on next year’s celebration. With Fat Tuesday set for a late March 1, we ...

Earlier this week I personally emailed each captain of the 34 parading krewes in Orleans Parish asking about their plans for the 2021 Carnival season. Twenty-six responded. Not surprisingly, the ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- This year, the familiar phrase down south will have to change from "Laissez le bon temps rouler" to "Que les bons moments roulent malgré la pandémie." Let the good times roll ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — You just can’t keep a good city down, especially when Mardi Gras is coming. All around New Orleans, thousands of houses are being decorated as floats because the coronavirus ...

Mardi Gras might look a bit different in 2021. Due to it being a religious holiday, the city cannot cancel Mardi Gras, but celebrating it safely amid the coronavirus pandemic is a different matter.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- While the City of New Orleans cannot cancel Mardi Gras because it is a religious holiday, it announced it is not permitting large gatherings to celebrate. Famed Mardi Grad ...

Mardi Gras 2021 was a very quiet, socially distanced event. And festivities were still a bit subdued in 2022, at least by pre-pandemic standards. But this year, New Orleans is ready to go full ...