The route will connect New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama, with twice-daily trains and four stops across Mississippi.

America’s passenger railroad today officially announced the new Amtrak Mardi Gras Service with twice-daily runs between New ...

Amtrak announced that the new service, dubbed the Mardi Gras Service, begins this summer, offering convenient morning and ...

New Orleans' most famous street could soon see sweeping changes if city leaders follow through on bold new safety recommendations after a New Year’s Day attack that killed 14 and injured dozens.

The Galveston Independent School District Board of Trustees has a 4.5-acre dilemma: what to do with L.A. Morgan Elementary, one of two elementary schools it closed last year as part of a far ...

All one has to do is look at what the Mardi Gras Pass has done and continues to do. It has destroyed fisheries, estuaries and accelerated land loss. There was a study done (I believe around 2012 ...

The report also calls for a permanent federal SEAR 1 threat designation for Mardi Gras, the highest federal event threat rating, to ensure additional security resources are allocated to the city.

There’s a new “Big Chief” in town. On Tuesday, Mardi Gras Records released "I'm Feeling Good! (Big Chief Remix)," a wholesale reinvention of Professor Longhair’s timeless 1965 Carnival cla ...

The Verizon Frontline Crisis Response Team supported the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) with Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) support during the busiest week of Mardi Gras. The NOPD requested ...

To help enhance situational awareness for first responders during Mardi Gras, the NOPD requested the Verizon Frontline Crisis Response Team provide UAS overwatch support during the busiest week of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Galveston is both home to Juneteenth and the Mardi Gras capital of Texas. Here on the island we hold these truths to be self-evident. But for Texans who don’t share those understandings — here’s ...