South Padre Island News

Brownsville charges $1.00 per transaction if you use plastic grocery bags. Fort Stockton and South Padre Island have banned their use.

Check out our interactive map showing constructed and proposed wind farms in the Coastal Bend and across the United States.

You don't have to tune into MTV Spring Break to know that for many college students the annual rite revolves around booze, beaches and babes.

A news release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that at about 8 p.m. on Feb.

Formerly a fugitive on Texas' top 10 most wanted list, Dennis Wayne Capps, 58, has entered a no contest plea in the slaying of a man whose body was found on South Padre Island in 2006.

Call the Texas Department of State Health Services for updates on state waters opening for oyster season at 800-685-0361. Red tide is slowly clearing from Texas waters, but dinophysis, another toxic algae bloom, has been spotted in some of the bays, another blow to the Texas oyster industry this season.

Formerly a fugitive on Texas' top ten most wanted list, Dennis Wayne Capps, 58, has entered a guilty plea in the murder of a man whose body was found on South Padre Island in 2006.

Most trash on the beaches of South Padre Island came from oceangoing vessels dumping their garbage overboard.

The Coast Guard said it was notified Saturday about the fishermen who had been missing since leaving Playa Baghdad, just south of the Texas-Mexico border, on Thursday.

With settings specifically for photos of food, pets, and the beach, you can annoy your Facebook friends like never before.

This is the story of a convicted murderer who had just been sentenced to 23 years in prison.

Money is missing from the Cameron County Parks Department, and county commissioners agreed Thursday to turn the matter over to law enforcement.

Feb. 03--Schlitterbahn on Thursday announced plans for the transformation of its South Padre Island water park into the Schlitterbahn Beach Resort, South Padre Island.

Schlitterbahn on South Padre Island, Texas Ungoing Transformation; Property to Become Schlitterbahn Beach Resort, to Include a 222-room Hotel Conncected to Water Park Feb.

New beachfront resort includes lodging, retail, restaurants, year-round indoor waterpark and special access to the summertime Schlitterbahn Beach outdoor waterpark.

The course will teach students efficient weapons handling skills and tactics designed to help them prevail in a fight while highlighting the enhanced features and design of LWRCI's battle rifles.

One of the most innovative and popular water park chains has a new property coming.

Call the Texas Department of State Health Services for updates on state waters opening for oyster season - 1-800-685-0361. Red tide carries neurotoxins that kill fish and make oysters and other shellfish toxic.

Attorneys completed jury selection Monday in a capital murder trial for the 2006 slaying of a man on South Padre Island.

Consuelo Arreola shops with her grandson Elias Calvillo at Mercado Juarez Brownsville inside the Majestic Mall on Saturday in Brownsville.