If you’re just passing through North Baton Rouge, you might think Dougherty Drive looks like all the others, until you get ...

She plans to use the palm trees in front of her home as decoration for tiki huts. But the drive to turn houses into Mardi Gras floats goes beyond just keeping the holiday tradition alive.

Around the Gulf Coast, there’s also a pretty good reason to keep it up: Mardi Gras. Given the close proximity to Christmas and the start of the Mardi Gras season, Mardi Gras trees are another ...

René Pierre's company usually looks after 75 floats during Mardi Gras and he has managed to get contracts to build 53 house floats. "My wife and I were trying to sleep one night, and we kept ...