Watch as Mardi Gras celebrations take place throughout New Orleans on Tuesday, March 4, otherwise known as Fat Tuesday.

Editor's note: Many parades in New Orleans have been either canceled or rescheduled due to severe weather in the area. Mardi Gras is almost over. Beginning as a religious holiday observed prior to ...

on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, March 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) Carnival celebrations have become thoroughly secularized in New Orleans, where the largest and best-known celebrations ...

It was a long and glorious Carnival season with plenty of opportunities to justify indulgences, between the parties, costumes and so, so much king cake.

Though one thing was certain of the Gothic novelist: her love for New Orleans and its culture ... welcomed in what his family called the "Mardi Gras house," whether they were on the 50-page ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The heightened police presence in New Orleans during Mardi Gras helped deliver one of the safest Carnival seasons in recent ... and into the peak of Carnival season. During the ...

Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans were plagued by high winds, rain and lightning this week. While some parades had to be suspended, many parties and other events went on as planned, despite the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Thousands of revelers adorned in beads and outlandish costumes will fill the streets of New Orleans as the city celebrates Mardi Gras Day despite anticipated severe storms.

The annual carnival comes in the wake of the New Year's Day terror attack. More cops than confetti are expected to be prevalent on parade routes when Mardi Gras goes ...

It may not have the French architectural charm of Nola, but Lake Charles’s vibrant celebrations have a certain je ne sais quoi, finds Rashmi Narayan ...

on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, March 8 ... where the largest and best-known celebrations in the U.S. include street parties, fancy balls and boisterous parades. Some of the parades are high ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Mardi Gras celebrations are underway in New Orleans! Early Mardi Gras morning, the North Side Skull and Bone Gang woke up revelers in the Treme neighborhood.