Tag: South Padre Island

Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport announced that Christopher Hopkins has been named assistant airport director.

Early voting for the Nov. 7 Special Joint Election is under way in Cameron County as of Monday, with city elections, tax rate propositions and state constitutional amendments on the ballot for voters to decide.

BROWNSVILLE — Tax bills are hitting the mailboxes.

South Padre Island’s first-ever Chrome in the Sand Festival will continue on Saturday with a very special guest, Paul Teutul Sr., founder of “Orange County Choppers.”

Two men are facing capital murder charges in the shooting death of a San Benito police officer during two chases stretching from South Padre Island to Brownsville that erupted in gunfire.

Tuesday is the last day Cameron County residents who want to vote in the Nov. 7 Special Joint Election will be able to register.

The U.S. Coast Guard Station South Padre Island detained Mexican fishermen who illegally caught nearly 200 pounds of red snapper on Saturday, according to a press release.

South Padre Island will be hosting the Ride for Rotary in which bicyclists will cross the Queen Isabella Memorial Bridge on Sunday.

Registration for the annual Red Tide Ranger training is open for the classroom instruction that will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 30, at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Coastal Studies Lab at 100 Marine Lab Drive, in Isla Blanca Park, on South Padre Island.

After more than a decade, investigators with the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office have determined that an unknown woman who was murdered and found buried on South Padre Island is of Asian descent.