The American Bank Center and the surrounding area could be in for a transformation should the Corpus Christi City Council act on suggestions it heard at its Jan. 24 meeting. Rob Hunden, president of Chicago-based Hunden Strategic Partners, gave the Read more…
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Port of Corpus Christi commissioners took another step toward building a seawater desalination plant on Harbor Island with a Jan. 17 vote to request a water intake permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The 5-2 vote to apply Read more…
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A leading resource for higher education program rankings has recognized the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi as the number one FNP program in the nation. Seattle-based Intelligent.com gave the TAMU-CC program a score of 98.68 out Read more…
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Public libraries in Nueces County are challenging young children to read 1,000 books before they begin kindergarten. The initiative is made possible though $10,000 in funding from the Texas Reads Grant, a program of the Texas State Library and Archives Read more…
Read moreElectric automaker Tesla recently posted employment opportunities for the Corpus Christi area. The Austin-based company is considering a site near Driscoll in western Nueces County for a proposed $375 million refining plant that would produce lithium hydroxide, a key component Read more…
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The Port of Corpus Christi will receive $157.3 million in federal funding after President Joe Biden signed the $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 recently approved by Congress. The money will go toward finishing the final phase of the Read more…
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Effective Jan. 2, 2023, game room owners will operate under new mandates approved by the Nueces County Commissioners Court in May 2022. Game rooms have long been a gray area in Texas with their eight-liner machines or computers that resemble Read more…
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The response to a light crude oil spill in Corpus Christi Bay continues as workers deploy more than 17,000 feet of boom and 3,000 feet of absorbent pads in an attempt to contain discharge from the Flint Hills Resources crude Read more…
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The Corpus Christi Independent School District Board of Trustees approved tax incentives for Monarch Energy on Dec. 20. The agreement would create a reinvestment zone and include annual supplemental payments of $330,000 to the school district if Monarch Energy builds Read more…
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development launched a civil rights investigation based on a complaint filed by residents living near the site of the city of Corpus Christi’s proposed desalination plant. The city wants to build the facility Read more…
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