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The City Council is slated to talk about funding local and residential street reconstruction, as well as staffing for a new fire station today.

The temple, which opened in 2013, serves about 500 Buddhists of Vietnamese origin, and about 20 non-Vietnamese Americans from a variety of ethnic groups and religious backgrounds.

The South Texas Colonia Initiative is bringing cleaning buckets and food to the Banquete Colonias on Tuesday.

Staffing for a fire station that was at the crux of controversy last year is slated for council discussion Tuesday.

With population growth and yearround tourist traffic on North Padre Island, Nueces County officials say the need for an emergency services district on the Island is great.

An area farmer decided to use a special (high-flying) opportunity to propose to his longtime girlfriend.

Police did not use force to subdue a man threatening to hurt himself and officers with a pair of garden sheers and negotiators were able to "talk him down" in about 10 minutes, police said.

A Corpus Christi native and his wife are sharing their European experience in HGTV's "House Hunters International: Where Are They Now?"

The 16th Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle release will be Tuesday morning.

A Corpus Christi crime fighter flew around the Harbor Bridge on a mission to uncover what may have damaged the Harbor Bridge on July 4.