For months, the Krewe of Oshun and float builder Jack Rizzuto have been at odds. Rizzuto claims he was never fully paid for ...

There will be plenty of parades in New Orleans leading up to Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday. on March 4. Here's what you need to know.

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 ...

Dancers in the Roux La La krewe perform for vehicles driving by during the Mardi Gras Float in the Oaks event in City Park, Feb. 14, 2021, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

See photos of 2025 Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Contributing: Gabe Hauari, Emily DeLetter, USA TODAY. Taylor Ardrey is a news reporter for USA TODAY. You can reach her at [email protected].

Mardi Gras celebrations erupt into a flurry of costumes and color on Fat Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, in New Orleans, La. Parade-goers took to the streets of the city to dance alongside floats, catch ...

An Orleans Parish jury acquitted a Xavier University student over a vehicle collision on Fat Tuesday last year that killed Kerry "Fatman" Hunter, a Grammy-winning drummer, as he walked across ...

Born and raised in New Orleans, she met her husband on the sidelines of the Krewe of Pandora nearly 50 years ago and had pushed away her worries to come out the weekend before Mardi Gras ...

No parades, limited gatherings, shuttered bars and a ban on to-go drink sales. A normally raucous Bourbon Street almost devoid of people. Because of the pandemic, Mardi Gras 2021 is unlike any ...

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 ...

Around 1.4 million visitors packed New Orleans for Mardi Gras 2020 in what’s suspected to be one of the first major superspreader Covid events in the United States. Revelers walk down a mostly ...