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 ...

New Orleans tied its own record that was set in 1895, getting 10 inches of snow during the rare winter storm Winter Storm ...

This year's Mardi Gras Galveston celebration will feature more than 20 different events with multiple local krewes.

Decorating Mardi Gras king cakes at Dong Phuong Bakery & Restaurant in New Orleans. Photo by C. Ross for The Washington Post via Getty Images Elias Alvarado rolling out butter for a king cake at ...

During Harrison’s time as police chief, a drunken driver plowed into Mardi Gras parade-goers in 2017, injuring 28 people. New Orleans hosted multiple Super Bowls during Harrison’s career at ...

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 ...

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 ...

King’s Mardi Gras Parade rolls at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4, and Biloxi’s 12th Night celebration will roll at 5 p.m. on Sunday. After the New Orleans attack that killed 14 people — including ...

The beloved pastry is a staple of Mardi Gras festivities and the Christian holiday of Epiphany. In the Christian tradition, the Feast of the Epiphany commemorates the visit of the Magi to the ...

La Porte will host its Mardi Gras on Main Feb. 22. It starts at 4 p.m. off Fairmont Parkway. Expect umbrellas, pets, golf carts, Jeeps, and traditional floats in the Second Line Parade.

Cape Town is preparing for one of its most anticipated events of the year—the Cape Town Pride Parade and Mardi Gras 2025—which promises to light up the city on Saturday, 1 March, Cape {town} Etc ...