South Padre Island News

The South Padre Island Board of Aldermen convened in a room crowded with interested spectators Wednesday evening.

Jugs used to collect donations for sick children can be found from Roma to South Padre Island.

A weekend beach outing with the family, an afternoon round of golf with friends.

Once the capital of Russian America, Sitka is a charming small town at the northern end of many cruises in Alaska.

The Cameron County Commissioners' Court has held off on providing a contractor with a temporary storage site for demolished construction material from South Padre Island's Ocean Tower, which is scheduled for demolition.

Liquidator Mason Schwarz is selling numerous items and materials that were supposed to be installed inside the 31-story condo.

Joni Clarke was named the permanent City Manger for the Town of South Padre Island.

Red tide is still present in the gulf. Thata s according to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials who conducted a second aerial view of the coast.

Abe Waterman was trying to smile, but the grin kept morphing into a grimace. The Canadian sand sculptor had come all the way from Prince Edward Island to compete in South Padre's Sand Castle Days, only to be doused with heavy rain, then choked by red tide spores blown around by 35 mph winds.

State parks officials on Wednesday were continuing to monitor "red tide" blooms along the state's southern coast, a month after the algae that causes it began killing fish and causing breathing problems.

You might call it destiny. Bergen County resident Jeff Parker fell under the spell of South Padre Island, Texas, a long, narrow spit of land in the Gulf of Mexico, 50 years ago, when he and his family lived in the Houston area.

See what AEP Texas does to get ready for the hurricane season and the steps the company takes to restore power following a major storm.

Christine befriends a scatterbrained mom at Ritchie's school, but she soon grows weary of being the responsible one in the relationship.

State monitoring has confirmed a stretch of red tide bloom extending from southern Mustang Island into Mexico.

One of Cameron County's most wanted, who was on the run for two years, has been caught.

South Padre Island, Texas is a great place to just get away from it all. The Island borders the Gulf of Mexico and the Laguna Madres Bay.

Howdy! Nov. 1 is a special day along the Texas Gulf Coast because it is opening day of oyster season.

Investigators are trying to identify a man's body that washed ashore early this morning.

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for a 60-year-old Brownsville man who officials say fell overboard late Saturday from a commercial fishing boat.

Metro Aviation Inc. of Shreveport, La., has agreed to pay $14 million to family members of two flight medics who died along with the pilot when their helicopter crashed into the bay off South Padre Island during a foggy, windy night.