This weekend in New Orleans, you can get hit with a bat by a roller skater, check out some monster trucks or celebrate Bastille Day.Zoom in: Here's what's going on around town this weekend.🍍 Naughty ...

Traditional Mardi Gras beads are produced from natural gas and oil-derived feedstock and take an estimated 500 years to decompose. And when they do, they release heavy metals and other toxins into ...

Mardi Gras Krewe of Oshun is in a struggle with a float builder over an unpaid $50,000 debt and control of the organization. Here's what we know.

LSU baseball was sent off to Omaha, Nebraska for this summer's College World Series on Wednesday morning, with a spectacle headlined by an eye-catching Tiger float from Kern Studios.

Parades on Mardi Gras day have been canceled due to the dangers posed by extreme winds that could reach 60 mph in the New Orleans area on Fat Tuesday.

Livvy Dunne certainly made quite the entrance for the Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Louisiana, as Grand Marshal of Endymion with not only her outfit, but her crazy parade float.

A newly opened float barn in Mobile aims to be inclusive to anyone who wants to store their Mardi Gras floats and join in on the festivities.

Mardi Gras is coming early next year. This year’s Carnival season lasts 58 days, from 12th Night on Jan. 6 to Mardi Gras on March 4. But next year, Mardi Gras falls on Feb. 17. That means ...

Two Mardi Gras floats caught fire in Houma this carnival season, raising safety concerns. Officials call for updated ordinances to prevent future incidents.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A Mardi Gras float created a traffic headache Tuesday (Feb. 25) afternoon. A tractor pulling the float was tipped onto its side on US 90 West at the Tchoupitoulas Exit.

Pensacola's Mardi Gras celebrations have been met with exuberance since they got rolling in 1900, but keeping traditions alive has been intentional.