Months after Gov. Greg Abbott blasted local leaders for backing out of a plan to build a desalination plant on the Corpus Christi ship channel, the state declined to help finance another, larger ...

For years, climate scientists have projected that South Texas would grow hotter and drier—that drought cycles would lengthen, that rainfall would become less reliable, and that the water systems built ...

When Thiago Campos bought the Mr. Fancy Pants Carwash business in Corpus Christi, Texas, three years ago, he wasn’t thinking about drought. He was familiar with varnishes and waxes and enjoyed ...

The rapidly receding shoreline of Lake Corpus Christi in Texas has revealed swaths of newly exposed lakebed, left boat docks jutting out into nothingness and uncovered previously submerged remnants of ...

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A Corpus Christi family is sharing an extraordinary birth story after welcoming four baby girls following a rare quadruplet pregnancy. Adriana Luna and her partner, Anthony Lerma, were stunned to ...

Gov. Greg Abbott is correct, Corpus Christi has plenty of water for residents. What the city lacks is enough water for the massive petroleum complex owned by major corporations that refuse to supply ...

In the middle of Great Lent, when the body begins to feel the weight of fasting and the soul the slow descent toward Golgotha, the Byzantine tradition places a sign before the faithful: the Cross. Not ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (Nexstar) — When Peter Zanoni took over as the city manager of Corpus Christi seven years ago, he said the city “needed a lot of things addressed immediately.” One of the top ...

Corpus Christi and the Coastal Bend are quickly hurtling toward a water catastrophe as reservoir levels continue to plummet to historic lows amid unrelenting drought. But just how fast that ...

Corpus Christi is hurtling toward a catastrophic water emergency, and Gov. Greg Abbott isn't holding back. With the city already under Stage 3 urgent water restrictions and on track to run out of ...

(This story was updated to add new information and a video.) Lake Corpus Christi has dropped to its lowest level — 9.9% — since it was impounded in 1958, city officials announced March 5. Meanwhile, ...