Texas lawmakers are ordering all counties to seek federal agreements that may be limited to jailhouses—or may convert ...

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In 2023, the Corpus Christi Police Department (CCPD), with two detectives on its cold case squad, began reviewing 100 ...

The latest version of the bill includes a previously nixed provision to allow Texans to donate crypto to the fund.

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Francesca D'Annunzio is the Texas Observer's 2025 David McHam investigative reporting fellow.D’Annunzio has reported on topics ranging from deportations in the Dominican Republic, Christian ...

Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience of the progressive movement in Texas and beyond, died of complications of ...

Corpus Christi is a town built around water. But while the Gulf of Mexico has made the region what it is today, seawater can’t save Corpus from a rapidly growing water crisis. As the Gulf shines ...

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