Baton Rouge offers visitors a unique Mardi Gras celebration. Visit Baton Rouge. New Orleans rules the roost when it comes to all things Mardi Gras, celebrated in elaborate style each year on Fat ...

Here’s the Baton Rouge area Mardi Gras parade schedule for 2025. Saturday, Feb. 15. Krewe of Oshun: Noon parade and 2 p.m. festival in Scotlandville.

The Spanish Town Mardi Gras parade in Downtown Baton Rouge will begin at noon on Saturday, March 1. During this parade , a procession of marching groups and about 75 floats will travel along ...

The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch that includes New Orleans and Baton Rouge metro areas until 7 p.m. Tuesday. The threat of severe weather prompted New Orleans Mardi Gras parades ...

He’s no Indiana Jones, but he spent decades uncovering real treasures. Meet Chip McGimsey, Louisiana’s retiring state ...

Making sure people in Baton Rouge don’t have to go to the Big Easy to get into the Mardi Gras Spirit. “If you say, ugh we can’t go to New Orleans, ugh it’s jam packed, well then just go to ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - An LSU researcher has created Mardi Gras beads that sprout into flowers when planted in soil. Even better, the flower roots can help bacteria to break ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — As LSU baseball heads to Omaha to compete in the College World Series, the tigers are bringing Mardi Gras Mike with them. Kern Studios designed the 30-foot-long parade float ...

St. Martinville faces a another Mardi Gras season without the Newcomers Parade. Learn how the community is working to revive it for 2026. ... who relocated from Baton Rouge, ...

Mardi Gras season is in full swing, and local krewes are getting ready to roll in several parades taking place over the next two weeks in the Baton Rouge area.