2025’s Mardi Gras has been a busy one. Visitors and celebrities have been in town for the festivities, and the numbers regarding hotel occupancy rates are up over previous years. Kelly Schulz of ...

Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday ... patrols and just their normal duty looking for people who are sharing signs of impairment on the road,” Schreffler said. Impairment can happen after ...

“I’ve never missed a Mardi Gras and I never will,” she added ... for its resilience — there were signs of anxiety amid the merriment. Among other things, the promise of tourism dollars ...

Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC LA's News Headlines newsletter. Fat Tuesday is the English translation of Mardi Gras. While Mardi Gras ...

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