NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans’ Carnival season officially opened Jan. 6, launching weeks of Mardi Gras parades and festivities across the metro area and southeastern Louisiana. The season comes to ...

King Zulu has reigned in the streets of New Orleans nearly every Fat Tuesday since 1909. The first kings of Zulu wore lard cans for crowns and carried banana stalks as scepters. Jubilee-singers ...

New Orleans leaders are doing heavy lifting in the name of fixing our budget woes. The Louisiana legislative auditor’s August ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the changes for next year's Mardi Gras now official, WWL's Meg Farris is digging deeper into one of the changes: why are ...

Look, if you've ever watched a Mardi Gras parade roll through New Orleans and thought, "this is just a giant party," you're ...

Proposed cuts would eliminate Mardi Gras cleanup funding, slash sanitation staffing by 75% and reduce operations to five days ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We may be in the middle of hurricane season, but new plans are already being made for Mardi Gras — and there is a long list of new ...

A letter attributed to concerned members of small and mid-size Mardi Gras krewes is calling on New Orleans officials to ...

Strapped for cash, New Orleans leaders are trying to streamline Mardi Gras by shifting a few parade routes in 2027 to take the pressure off police, first responders, street cleaners and other services ...

NEW ORLEANS — With the changes for next year's Mardi Gras now official, WWL's Meg Farris is digging deeper into one of the changes: why are parade routes being shifted? And what is the reaction of ...