Long after the spring break and summer hordes have departed, South Padre Island welcomes empty nesters who alight there to soak up the sunshine, mild temperatures and relaxed lifestyle on the Texas ...

A Fourth of July at the beach went awry due to a shark attack on South Padre Island, a popular tourist destination on the Southeast Texas Coast. Two people were bitten by a shark, and beachgoers were ...

In one incident, police received a call about a "severe" bite to a man's leg. Four people are believed to have been injured by the same shark while in waters off the southern coast of Texas on the ...

Twenty-four years ago, the world and nation were still reeling from the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, when South Texas suffered another blow when a portion of the causeway connecting South ...