Parents of missing New Braunfels man offer $25K reward for information leading to sonโs safe return
The Corpus Christi Police Department is still searching for a missing 21-year-old university student from New Braunfels. Now, his parents are offering a reward for information leading to his safe return.
US Coast Guard arrests 13 fishermen, seizes 2,160 pounds of illegally caught fish
The United States Coast Guard stopped three lanchas and seized 2,160 pounds of illegally caught fish off the Southern Texas coast. Authorities found 13 fishermen from Mexico illegally fishing north of the Maritime Boundary Line, the press release said.
How Texas polluters classify big facilities as smaller ones to avoid stricter environmental rules and public input
Industrial developers describe large facilities as โminorโ polluters to avoid federal permitting requirements, and environmental lawyers say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality lets it happen.
Judge admonishes Texas foster care officials, saying they donโt properly monitor facilities housing kids
A U.S. district judge has long presided over a court case that found Texasโ foster care system unconstitutionally harms kids. Tuesdayโs hearing was the first appearance by the stateโs new team of defense attorneys.
At parental rights event, Gov. Greg Abbott sheds light on how heโd implement โschool choiceโ policy
For the first time, Abbott makes it clear which policy he supports. Bills that would allow parents to get state money to send their kids to schools outside of the stateโs public education system have been floated previously, but top lawmakers believe the policies will pass this session.
Corpus Christi sold its water to Exxon, gambling on desalination. So far, it is losing the bet.
Concerns over ecological damage to Corpus Christi Bay have delayed plans to convert sea water to drinking water for years in this booming Gulf Coast city, where environmentalists see water supply as a โchokeholdโ to block new fossil fuel infrastructure.
Trump to hold rally in South Texas two days before early voting
The former president will stage a rally Saturday in Robstown, west of Corpus Christi. Gov. Greg Abbott said he canโt attend, but Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton, who are both running for reelection, will be speakers.
EPA reverses course, rejects permit for massive oil exporting project offshore from Corpus Christi
During the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency exempted a proposed oil export terminal off the Texas coast from air pollution requirements. This week it rejected the permit because of pollution concerns.
The Karankawa were said to be extinct. Now theyโre reviving their culture โ and fighting to protect their ancestorsโ land.
Historians long thought the Karankawa people had disappeared. But now a group of descendants is fighting to protect a coastal area โ where thousands of Karankawa artifacts were found โ from an encroaching oil export facility.
Honorable discharge: Officer accused of groping handcuffed woman bounced between departments despite trail of misconduct
A South Texas police officer with a history of misconduct was accused of groping a San Antonio-area woman during an August 2019 drug arrest on the same day he was notified of an impending suspension for an unrelated parking dispute with a resident.