Parades are set to commence Monday less than a week after a deadly truck attack killed 14 people and injured dozens in what ...

According to Campbell, the Mardi Gras tree concept got started when someone removed all of their Christmas tree ornaments but kept the artificial tree up. The reason is a mystery. After returning home ...

Here’s what to know about Mardi Gras trees. The exact history of the origin of Mardi Gras trees is a little fuzzy. Jeff Campbell, co-director of the Plano Conservancy for Historic Preservation ...

Each year on Jan. 6, as other Americans are taking down their Christmas decorations, residents in New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf South start hanging Mardi Gras beads and ordering their ...

Mardi Gras in New Orleans is called "The Greatest Free Show on Earth." Here's what to know about its popular symbol: the ...

Do you know the history of Twelfth Night? Here's how it came to be known as the start of the Carnival season in New Orleans.

But at one point in its long history, Mobile’s Mardi Gras was held on New Year’s Eve – and that’s when parades and mystic societies began. The site of Old Mobile was then part of French ...

The small, plastic baby baked inside of king cakes is one of the most well-known traditions of Mardi Gras . Everyone knows if you get the baby, you have to buy the next delicious purple ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans officials are promising unprecedented security for Mardi Gras 2025 following the ... will be the safest in the city’s history and said she will continue to ...