The pastry came with a white cat fève instead of a baby or a bean, and the sides were dusted with powdered sugar. The rich ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Happy Mardi Gras! WGNO will be bringing you full Fat Tuesday coverage online and on air. From 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., we will bring you an online exclusive on all things Mardi Gras.

NEW ORLEANS – From behind the counter at Bourbon Street's Fat Tuesday daiquiri bar, Kenya McGrew thought she'd seen it all: The street fights and drunken tourists, the wedding parties dancing ...

The first Mardi Gras celebration in the U.S. took place in 1699, but celebrations were temporarily banned when Spain took control of New Orleans ... is French for "Fat Tuesday," according ...

The name “King Cake” is a reference to the Biblical story of the three kings or wisemen who brought gifts when Jesus was born ...

Mobile isn’t the only place to celebrate Mardi Gras in Alabama. Gulf Shores, one hour south by car, has some of the USA’s ...

Paul McCartney, his wife Linda and his band Wings flew into New Orleans to record songs for the album'Venus and Mars' at Allen Toussaint and Marshall Sehorn’s Sea-Saint Recording Studio in Gentilly.

Here's what you need to know about Mardi Gras in Mississippi, where to find family fun events around the state during Carnival, when to get king cake.