If you’re planning to either ride in or attend Mardi Gras parades this year, there are some new rules you’ll want to keep in mind. Last year, the New Orleans City Council adopted several new rules for ...

Lafayette government officials are urging residents and visitors to follow parade regulations and plan ahead to ensure a safe and enjoyable Mardi Gras season. Barricades will be placed along the ...

The 14th Feliciana Family and Friends Mardi Gras parade included floats and horses, while vendors at the monthly Clinton Market, which was on the parade route, sold homemade goods and crafts.

Fat Tuesday is the biggest day of the year for the Carnival Season and every year hundreds of thousands of people travel to the Big Easy to line the streets and catch beads thrown from the floats.

In other parts of the country, bored parade audiences and float riders might as well keep their hands in their pockets. But here, everybody’s busy, either flinging or snatching beads and baubles — and ...

Big Chief Demond Melancon wears his Red Cloud suit amongst other members of Mardi Gras Indian tribes during Mardi Gras 2014. In February 2021, the usual bustle of New Orleans’ Canal Street stopped ...