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The Cameron County Sheriff’s Office hosted a news conference Thursday afternoon to discuss the arrest of one of its jailers ...
Will the third time be the charm for a Cameron County proposition to build a 10,000-person venue using tourism tax dollars? County leaders are optimistic as early voting for the May 3 election ...
Proposition A, which would have given Cameron County officials the greenlight to use taxes paid by tourists to help fund the construction of an entertainment venue, failed at the ballot box for ...
Events on Saturday, July 5 are expanding with a new location for the Cameron County Fireworks. Following the vendors lining downtown Emporium the attention will turn to Smoker’s Insane Terrain Offroad ...
Texas has a new city, largely thanks to Elon Musk's SpaceX. Residents in Cameron County, Texas, voted on May 3 to officially create Starbase, a new city along the state's southern border.
The voters, mostly SpaceX employees who have moved out to the roughly 1.5 square mile area in Cameron County, approved the small city for Musk’s company by 212 votes in favor to 6 against ...
“It’s officially statistically impossible for the measure to fail,” Cameron County Elections Administrator Remi Garza said. “Cameron County is about to have a new city.” Musk celebrated ...
With all the votes in, the tally was 212 in favor to 6 against, according to results published online by the Cameron County Elections Department. Starbase is the facility and launch site for the ...
For one, most of the 283 eligible voters — residents of Cameron County whose homes would fall within the boundaries of the proposed new city — are SpaceX employees or have some connection to ...
Cameron County School District contains 2 schools and 433 students. The district’s minority enrollment is 10%. Also, 59.1% of students are economically disadvantaged. The student body at the ...