Tag: South Padre Island

With approval of a $10 million Texas Water Development Board loan, the Laguna Madre Water District will build a 10 million gallon seawater desalination plant in Port Isabel using water from the Brownsville Ship Channel.

A global technology outage directly affected Rio Grande Valley air travel Friday morning, delaying flights at all three airports.

While unusual, the July 4 shark attack on South Padre Island that inured a North Texas couple is a reminder that danger lurks offshore, Cameron County Marine Extension Agent Tony Reisinger said earlier this week.

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — The shark attacks on South Padre Island have surprised, angered and terrified many people.

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — At least three shark attacks, described as "extremely rare," left as many as three victims hospitalized after swimming in shallow waters before officials cleared out Fourth of July revelers Thursday, a Cameron County official said.

Cameron County beach access points and Boca Chica Beach have opened following closures due to Tropical Storm Alberto.

With Tropical Storm Alberto receding in the rear view mirror as far as the Rio Grande Valley is concerned, meteorologists with the National Weather Service Brownsville-RGV station expressed growing confidence Thursday that a second tropical disturbance in the Bay of Campeche will also become a tropical cyclone.

Cities across the Rio Grande Valley are distributing sandbags ahead of heavy rainfall that’s expected to arrive sometime Wednesday.

Have you seen the black balls washing up on South Padre Island?

A Brownsville man is dead from a fatal motorcycle crash on Saturday in what marks the second fatal crash in as many weeks on the Queen Isabella Memorial Bridge, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.