Amtrak will soon operate service between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama. The new service is expected to launch in summer 2025.

Through her re-branded Gombo Atelier, Lafayette artist Zozo Huval creates jewelry and fashion inspired by their roots — now at Festival International.

LOTS OF SUNSHINE. The New Orleans Police Department has made an arrest in connection with a homicide investigation on Mardi Gras Day. According to police, NOPD arrested a 15-year-old in connection ...

All one has to do is look at what the Mardi Gras Pass has done and continues to do. It has destroyed fisheries, estuaries and accelerated land loss. There was a study done (I believe around 2012 ...

The report also calls for a permanent federal SEAR 1 threat designation for Mardi Gras, the highest federal event threat rating, to ensure additional security resources are allocated to the city.

There’s a new “Big Chief” in town. On Tuesday, Mardi Gras Records released "I'm Feeling Good! (Big Chief Remix)," a wholesale reinvention of Professor Longhair’s timeless 1965 Carnival cla ...

MARDI GRAS UPDATE: The Captain of the Krewe of Oceanus sent out a statement today clarifying our story about the dissolution of the Krewe: While no longer a member of the NWLA Mardi Gras ...

But while we’ve taken plenty of notes from our family matriarchs on trends worth repeating, there’s a short list of their ideas that we’d rather leave ... and dig through dresser drawers and the ...

Heart-shaped necklaces and classic bracelets and rings are just the beginning; you’ll find gift options for the moms in your life that suit every style. You can even opt for accessories like scented ...

The krewe customarily selects and designs next year’s throws soon after Mardi Gras ends. The krewe then enters into contracts with an importer to buy them by “summer at the latest,” he said.

The central medallion at the main entrance arch of Universal Studios Florida is a gold circle saying “Mardi Gras 30th Celebration,” marking the milestone anniversary of Mardi Gras celebrations at the ...