New Orleans, home to Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street, is well accustomed to hosting large crowds. But with Carnival season set to begin on Monday, five days after an attacker plowed a Ford F-150 ...

Mardi Gras is less than a week away and security surrounding this year’s Fat Tuesday celebrations, marking the end of Carnival season in New Orleans, will be heightened following the deadly New ...

New Orleans kicks off Mardi Gras 2025 ... Reiss announced that New Orleans Carnival parades would be dedicated to the 14 people who lost their lives in the New Year's Day attack on Bourbon Street.

A new report urges changes to make Bourbon Street safer after a deadly New Year’s Day attack, including turning the New Orleans strip into a pedestrian zone.

Bourbon Street is seen from a balcony at the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Mardi Gras Day, Tuesday, March 4, 2025 in New Orleans.

Yes, Mardi Gras is celebrated every year with the exception of 2021, when New Orleans parades were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mardi Gras festivities in 2025 are already set in New ...

Mardi Gras has officially come to an end. The clock has struck midnight, which means that the New Orleans Police Department and the New Orleans mayor would ceremoniously end the revelry of ...

NEW ORLEANS — After the deadly attack on Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day left 14 people dead, officials are making sure Mardi Gras 2025 will have the highest level of security ever.

Mardi Gras is the third big test for New Orleans since the horrific Jan. 1 truck-ramming and shooting rampage on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter was allegedly carried out by a 42-year-old U.S ...

Mardi Gras in New Orleans is considered a SEAR 1 event, which is a rating of special events based on risk-assessment, meaning that the event will receive federal interagency support.. The city of ...

Months before the deadly New Orleans vehicle attack on New Year’s Day, the city modeled scenarios for how an attacker could enter Bourbon Street at various intersections in a crew-cab Ford F-150 ...