Port Isabel News

A Port Isabel man who left the scene of a deadly accident is facing a more serious charge.

The Mexican consulate will have a mobile unit at Port Isabel on Saturday as part of its "Mobile Consulate" program to provide outreach to the community.

A local woman is dead after she was hit by a truck while trying to cross Highway 100.

Authorities released the name of the victim in a deadly hit-and-run in Port Isabel.

Authorities arrested a driver in connection with a fatal hit-and-run in Port Isabel.

Federal officials plan to ban sales of raw oysters harvested from the Gulf of Mexico unless the shellfish are treated to destroy potentially deadly bacteria.

Funeral arrangements for Javier A. Cisneros, 51, who passed away on Tuesday are under the direction of Rudy Garza Funeral Home of Mercedes.

The Coast Guard rescued five people in two seperate incidents approximately 25 miles north of Port Isabel, Monday.

In Mexico, the end of October marks a time-honored celebration known as "Day of the Dead." Over time, the tradition has crept into the Mexican-influenced Texas border region.

Three 16-inch permit were captured recently in gillnets set by Texas Parks & Widlife near Rocky Slough south of Baffin Bay.

South Padre Island is a vacation spot off the southern tip of the Gulf Coast of Texas .

It was a rainy day in south Texas, the day of the funeral, and another one of the greatest generation is gone.

My gaze was focused on a seagrass meadow that stretched nearly to the horizon. And I maintained this watch from the tower of John Todd's Redfish Line Majek.

We caught several trout and redfish on topwaters while wading, but I did better after switching to soft plastics in Peyton's Bay near the Arroyo Colorado.

The Cameron County Department of Health and Human Services has received its first doses of the H1N1 vaccine, but the amount sent to the county is lower than anticipated.

Guide Kirk Stansel said fishing for redfish has been good around wiers and at the jetty.

A former immigration facility prison guard admitted today that he repeatedly snuck into the rooms of women held in isolation and ordered them to strip so he could fondle them.

The victims of the Queen Isabella Causeway collapse are being remembered. Today marks the eighth anniversary of the tragic accident.

In 2001, the bridge collapsed, after a barge hit it. Seven people died. Port Isabel city officials gather at the foot of the causeway every year to remember the tragedy.

Old, dangerous and forgotten; a group of abandon homes in Port Isabel has a community demanding change.