Mardi Gras

Have you ever dreamed of being royal? Enter the Red Hot Mardi Gras Ball Costume contest for a chance to be royalty.

Changes to Mardi Gras parade rules in New Orleans sailed easily through the New Orleans City Council, according to NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.

Mardi Gras parade-goers will still be able to use ladders as they reach out to catch beads and other trinkets tossed from floats — but those ladders will have to be six feet from the curb.

With Monday's Mardi Gras flag raising ceremony at City Hall, the festival season has officially begun in Lafayette Parish.

Mardi Gras season is here, and we've got a plethora of activities here in Acadiana to get ready for!

Naughty or nice? Twerking for Christmas.

Glenn Stewart had been arrested Feb. 21, 2012, after he punched Erin Fitzgerald in the face, knocking her out cold.

It will take through Friday for the crews to finish picking up all 55-hundred barricades.

Here are a few of the sights and scenes that made Mardi Gras 2013.

Yeah, the weather may have affected the overall attendance this year, and thus Lafayette's claim of having the second-largest Mardi Gras in the country, but the spirit was still very much alive and well.

Mardi Gras is one of the most fun events that happens in South Louisiana.  Even with the rain, that didn't seem to dampen the spirits of those celebrating in Lafayette.  But what about your day?  Did you have a great day this year?  Vote in our poll and let us know how it went for you...

While you can't say that Mardi Gras is a uniquely Louisianan event, you can say that the state has the market cornered on the amount of celebrations.  Still, there are others that celebrate as far and as wide as California, Michigan and even Wisconsin...

Are you ready to say, "Throw me something mister?"

They aren't worth much monetarily, but they are sentimental.

Happy Fat Tuesday! If you aren't out there letting the good times rolls on the final day of the 2013 Mardi Gras season, you can at least live it up vicariously through this photo gallery, which features pictures uploaded by Mardi Gras revelers across the country.

Blood donor centers suffer blood shortages during the Mardi Gras and holiday seasons.

Parades will roll on Mardi Gras Day, but the garbage trucks won't in Lafayette Parish.

With Mardi Gras on the horizon, City Parish President Joey Durel joined us on the phone during the Afternoon Drive Home. We first asked him about Mardi Gras and if there was any thought to cancellation of everything.  Durel said, I will tell you to my knowledge what I have been told, there has never been a Mardi Gras Day Parade cancelled...

Check out our list of what is happening as Acadiana celebrates Mardi Gras.

The mayor of St. Louis, Mo., Francis Slay, told reporters today that his city has, not only the second-largest Mardi Gras event in the country, but the best in the U.S. as well.