There hasn’t been a more important Carnival season since 2006 when Mardi Gras bounced back following Hurricane Katrina. The highly anticipated “Comeback Carnival” of 2022 was a huge success—one of the ...

FORT WALTON BEACH — Mardi Gras is coming back to downtown. Fort Walton Beach hosted its first Mardi Gras Parade and Downtown Throwdown in 2020, but took a year off because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Carnival 2022 began on Twelfth Night with the annual King Cake cutting ceremony at Mardi Gras World where Mayor LaToya Cantrell left no doubt that Mardi Gras was on! I attended the upbeat but scaled ...

Mardi Gras 2021 was a very quiet, socially distanced event. And festivities were still a bit subdued in 2022, at least by pre-pandemic standards. But this year, New Orleans is ready to go full ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The group behind the wave of houses decorated to look like floats during this year's pandemic-curtailed Mardi Gras is continuing the tradition in 2022 while the mayor weighs whether ...