People who prefer putting up a fake Christmas tree are a little more lax when they take down their trees. Around the Gulf Coast, there’s also a pretty good reason to keep it up: Mardi Gras.

It’s the calm before the Boom Boom as businesses in downtown Mobile get ready for the thousands of people ready to party.

Once I glued the tree – wrapped in fairy lights and beads ... adding the typical items one would see in a front yard during Mardi Gras. After hours of work, I held up my headpiece, thinking ...

A major cross-country storm is moving east, bringing thunderstorms to the South from Texas to New Orleans on Mardi Gras Day ...

Mardi Gras beads dangling from tree limbs are a lovely sight, but the broken ones strewed about the asphalt and grass are not as picturesque. To combat the leftover Mardi Gras litter, LSU's ...