COVINGTON, La. (WVUE) - A very special Mardi Gras celebration took place in Covington for 5-year-old Ava Thomas, a resilient young girl battling cystic fibrosis. Ava, who recently underwent a ...

The Mardi Gras Indians, or Black Masking Indians, have been around since the 1800s. Members spend months painstakingly ...

Mardi Gras will be celebrated a bit later this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t prepare now by learning all about the holiday. Before the big day – or week for our New Orleans friends – here’s ...

Mardi Gras 2026 will be celebrated on Feb. 17, but Pensacola's parades will start on Feb. 12. Mardi Gras balls, parties and other events will be peppered throughout January. Mardi Gras season ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A parade participant hands out beads along the parade route in the Bastrop Mardi Gras Parade, Feb. 1, 2025. The second annual ...

"Laissez les bons temps rouler," or "Let the good times roll." Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is almost here, so prepare to revel in vibrant colors, merriment, parades, King Cakes and tons of beads.

While most are recovering from Christmas while preparing to celebrate the coming of a new year, there’s another group of people silently plotting and planning for the first big celebration of 2025: ...

Big Chief Demond Melancon wears his Red Cloud suit amongst other members of Mardi Gras Indian tribes during Mardi Gras 2014. In February 2021, the usual bustle of New Orleans’ Canal Street stopped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following weeks of celebrations and king cake, the 2026 Mardi Gras season will come to a grand end on Fat Tuesday, Feb. 17. While ...

The Mardi Gras season, also known as Carnival, begins on January 6th and ends on March 4th, 2025. The first Mardi Gras celebration in the U.S. took place in 1699, but celebrations were temporarily ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aly Walansky is a NY-based journalist who covers cocktails and dining. One of the official sayings of the Mardi Gras season is ...