Officials prioritise security at the French Quarter Festival with water-filled barriers after the Bourbon Street attack.

Mardi Gras 2025 may not have been the biggest on record, but it was the biggest post-pandemic Carnival, with hotel occupancy averaging nearly 90% for the five-day weekend and businesses owners ...

FILE - In this March 2, 2014 file photo, parade-goers cheer for beads and trinkets from float riders as a Mardi Gras parade rolls down Napoleon Ave. in New Orleans. Lent has begun. King cake ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The Orleans Parish Office has wrapped up its public safety efforts following the carnival season and Mardi Gras day, 2025. According to a release from the OPSO, law ...

NEW ORLEANS — Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras with parades and partying, leaving behind an avalanche of waste. At dawn Wednesday, a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Over the past three years, a collection of organizations has stepped up efforts to improve the ...

With the sun rising, people stumbled out of bars and saluted the trash collectors. A drunken couple shrieked and leaped onto ...