It was delayed a week by cold weather — but Thursday night the City of Mobile lit the Mardi Gras Tree. Port City favorite — The Excelsior Band — welcoming revelers to Mardi Gras Park.

Mardi Gras in the Port City dates back to 1703 (New Orleans’ version became popular in the 1730s), when New World French explorers had a celebration at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff, the first settlement in ...

Reservations have opened for Universal Orlando Annual Passholders (UOAP) to reserve a spot to ride on a Mardi Gras parade float. UPDATE – 01/16/25: As of 12:44 p.m., UOAP reservations for Mardi Gras ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The City of Mobile invested in 18 portable bollards ahead of the 2025 Mardi Gras season. The $167,371 investment was made in hopes of preventing a copycat of the New ...

The FBI said that “as late as mid-November,” Jabbar looked up how to access a balcony on Bourbon Street, researched Mardi Gras and looked up information about several shootings in New Orleans.

WE ALSO LEARNED FROM THE FBI THAT THE SUSPECT’S ONLINE HISTORY INCLUDED LOOKING UP HOW TO ACCESS A BALCONY IN NEW ORLEANS, THINGS ABOUT MARDI GRAS AND PREVIOUS SHOOTINGS ACROSS THE CITY.

If you know of any events not on this list, please send them to news@klfy.com. Sunday, Feb. 2 – Bayou Mardi Gras Parade – New Iberia, 2 p.m. Family-styled Mardi Gras celebration on the banks ...

Mike Graves pulled his Kia Sedona minivan towing a U-Haul trailer full of king cakes, some jiggling between between purple, green and gold beads, in a Midtown parking lot last year just ahead of ...

(NEWS 15) — It's Carnival Season in Acadiana and across Louisiana. Mardi Gras is on March 4, but there are plenty of parades and other events leading up to Fat Tuesday.

Luckily, they've been here before. Mardi Gras is just the first in a series of annual festivals and special events on the island, and "in the lead up to each event we do comprehensive security and ...