South Padre Island News

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.

An unwelcome visitor has returned to South Padre Island just as SandCastle Days gets under way.

La Frontera, an award-winning Spanish-language newspaper serving South Texas, has stopped publication.

"Amazing" Walter McDonald and Lucinda "Sandy Feet" Wierenga didn't know they were laying the foundations of a South Padre Island tradition when they began spending time on the beach building sand castles back in the early 1980s.

Thousands of dead fish have been observed off South Padre Island during red tide monitoring.

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

A bank teller allowed a south Texas mayor to deposit a $26,000 check made out to someone else into his business account, the clerk testified Tuesday at the politician's theft trial, because he did not think the well-known figure would be breaking the law.

It is also causing respiratory problems for people vacationing on South Padre Island.