Year-round donation and drop-off options exist through Arc of Greater New Orleans (ArcGNO), which operates multiple ...

NEW ORLEANS – Mardi Gras has officially made its return to New Orleans this week with celebrations that leave behind tons of waste every year. While the city's sanitation department will be focusing ...

Fat Tuesday is the biggest day of the year for the Carnival Season and every year hundreds of thousands of people travel to the Big Easy to line the streets and catch beads thrown from the floats.

If you've ever been to a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, then you're probably familiar with the sea of unwanted beads, flashing toys and plastic packaging left in the wake of the last float to pass ...

The Carnival season has come to a close, and it's time to decide what to do with your collection of magnificent throws. If you're not inclined to keep your beads in a corner of your garage to collect ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of colorful beads or other trinkets to parade watchers clamoring ...

Security bollards were not in place during New Year's Day truck attack in New Orleans due to malfunctions and ongoing ...

NEW ORLEANS — It's a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of colorful beads or other trinkets to parade watchers clamoring with ...