As festival season gears up in the Coastal Bend, now is the time to make plans. You can start with this list of major festivals then visit 101CorpusChristi.com/EVENTS for details of these and other events. Our Calendar of Events is Read more…
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The Tejano Lowrider Extravaganza joins this year’s Fiesta de la Flor, set for April 12-13 in Corpus Christi. The musical lineup for the fifth annual celebration of Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez was recently announced in the singer’s hometown. Entertainment Read more…
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San Patricio County commissioners are paving the way for a $1.8 billion steel mill that could be built on 2,500 acres of land near the city of Sinton. Commissioners voted unanimously to create the San Patricio County Buffalo Steel Mill Read more…
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The four Payless Shoes stores in the Coastal Bend will be closed for business as early as the end of March or as late as the end of May. The bankrupt company announced Feb. 16 it will be closing all Read more…
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NASA has selected Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi as one of two sites in the nation to test drones in urban management. The Lone Star Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center of Excellence & Innovation at TAMU-CC was selected by NASA’s UAS Traffic Read more…
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A new lease agreement between the city of Corpus Christi and SQH Sports & Entertainment Inc. now being drafted will increase the original 68 acres agreed on in 2018 to about 200 acres. Mayor Joe McComb and council member Greg Read more…
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The Coastal Bend is now home to the largest refrigerant production facility in the world. Chemours Co. announced Feb. 12 that its new Opteon YF (HFO-1234yf) refrigerant production facility in Ingleside has gone online, making what it calls low global Read more…
Read moreVisit the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History for only $1 a person on Sunday, Feb. 17. Now under new management, the museum will be open Sunday noon-5 p.m. The museum recently received a $303,394 grant from the Rebuild Read more…
Read moreA new Navy combat ship will be named after the city of Kingsville, the U.S. Navy recently announced in the Coastal Bend city. The USS Kingsville is an independence-variant littoral combat ship designed to support anti-submarine warfare, surface warfare missions, Read more…
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Phase one of a new residential and retail development in Rockport is scheduled to begin in March and be completed by August 2020. The Pearl Point master-planned community will include 456 apartments for rent and a retail and commercial space Read more…
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