BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - If you’re just passing through North Baton Rouge, you might think Dougherty Drive looks like all the others, until you get close enough to see Kerry Haynes home dubbed the ...

Krewe of Les Minous, which in French means “The Kitties,” kicked off its inaugural Mardi Gras season with its first ...

The big crowds always demand a big public safety effort and that's especially true this year after a New Year’s Day attack in ...

Edward Singh and Martha Cardenas-Singh were crowned the 2025 Mardi Gras King and Queen on Thursday evening, Jan. 16, at the ...

New Orleans Souvenirs range from Mardi Gras Beads to fun t-shirts. These are some of our favorite souvenirs from New Orl ...

Rain in New Orleans doesn’t mean the vibrant city loses its charm. On the contrary, it offers a great opportunity to explore ...

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 ...

It’s traditional to keep your Christmas tree around until the Twelfth Night (12 days after Christmas), especially if you don't have a live Christmas tree. People who prefer putting up a fake ...

Whether or not you should rinse chicken before cooking has been long debated, and you might have your own ideas about whether or not it's necessary. Some prefer to rinse chicken before cooking it, to ...

As New Orleans kicks off its extravagant Carnival season this week, Louisiana is launching a new investigation into the New Year’s Day massacre that killed 14 people while the city will get more ...

The Mardi Gras season, also known as Carnival, begins on January 6th and ends on March 4th, 2025. The first Mardi Gras celebration in the U.S. took place in 1699, but celebrations were temporarily ...