South Padre Island News

Reason 10 - The beaches of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are within driving distance of a considerable part of the US population .

That question will be answered this week as Andrews competes against nine professional sand sculptors from around the world in the 13th annual Master Sand Sculpting Competition at Hampton Beach.

Grassroots groups are asking Texas Governor Rick Perry to veto a bill waiting for his signature that would allow more toll roads in San Antonio, Dallas-Ft.

Nearly eight months after a tourist found the dead body of a woman on a South Texas beach, investigators have still been unable to determine her identity.

In a weekend story previewing the City Council's discussion today on single-use plastic bags, the Dallas Morning News ran a photo of a tattered Kroger bag snagged on a barbed wire fence, downtown Dallas looming as a backdrop.

A proposed ban on plastic bags, commonly used at retail stores, will get another look at a Dallas City Council committee meeting Monday.

By allowing the pattern of this old-style windmill in Victoria, Texas to overflow the edges of the frame the image becomes more graphic and eye-catching.

The officer spotted the trouble in the West Point Area near South Padre Island in an open field.

Dr. deMaar will speak at the June 8 training for stranded marine-mammal rescues.

The 11th annual Great Texas Catamaran Race is a 300-mile open-ocean catamaran race along the Texas coast from South Padre Island to Galveston from June 12-15. The GT300 is divided into four daylong legs, from South Padre Island to Mustang Island State Park then to Matagorda Beach and then on to Surfside Beach and finishing at East Beach in ... (more)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, began work on a $14.5 million jetty repair project at the entrance to the Brownsville Ship Channel with scheduled completion in 2014.

It's been years since the island has seen traffic like this on a Memorial day weekend, the most since Hurricane Ike.

Texas is competing with three other locations in Florida, Georgia, and Puerto Rico for the honor of hosting a space port.

Nested on South Padre Island, Texas, along the Gulf of Mexico, this beachfront hotel offers convenient services such as free high-speed internet access as well as free parking.

Rep. Craig Eiland, D-Galveston, right, high-fives Rep. Tara Rios Ybarra, D-South Padre Island at theTexas House of Representatives on the last day of the 81st Legislature in 2009.