The event is rooted in African and Native American influences, with ties to both Catholic and Black masking Indian traditions ...

Permeating everything from its wrought-iron architecture to its timeless traditions and parades, it’s no wonder New Orleans ...

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New Orleans has about 26,000 hotel rooms downtown, and occupancy averaged about 86% between Feb. 28 and Mardi Gras, the ...

Mardi Gras 2025 may not have been the biggest on record, but it was the biggest post-pandemic Carnival, with hotel occupancy ...

Piles of Mardi Gras detritus accumulated from Mardi Gras celebrations lies in the French Quarter in New Orleans, on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jack Brook) Leander Nunez, 54 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 ...