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 ...

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 ...

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

Watch as Mardi Gras celebrations take place throughout New Orleans on Tuesday, March 4, otherwise known as Fat Tuesday.