6 Investigates

A new state law is taking effect September 1 enabling all 254 Texas counties to regulate game rooms.

Game rooms are popping up across the city and the state of Texas wants local leaders to regulate them.

It’s something we’ve all driven past on the way to the beach. But never really noticed until now. Several feet from the entrance to J.P. Luby Beach off Zahn Road, there’s a large masonry wall with a gate. But it’s the public utility equipment behind that wall that has City Councilman Greg Smith conc

It’s a problem we featured earlier this year, when open government advocate Kelley Shannon told us the ruling – known as the “Boeing Decision” – had been used as a shield by local governments and contractors in blocking thousands of requests for specific information concerning contracts with private

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has about $4.2 billion at the ready for the 2019 hurricane season.

Cramped, unsanitary conditions are now the norm for the 6 Citgo executives now in their 19th month of captivity at the hands of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro.

State lawmakers passed a bill to create the Texas Wind Insurance Association Funding Structure Oversight board.

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association could see some big changes coming out of the legislative session that ended yesterday in Austin.

America's farmers have been among the hardest hit by the escalating trade war between the United States and China.

The Texas Attorney General’s Office has proposed the penalties against Valero Energy Corporations for a backflow incident at the Valero Corpus Christi Asphalt Plant, according to information released in Valero’s 1st quarterly earnings summary on May 7.

The city is attempting to catch up on hundreds of traffic tickets that never made it into its court system.

A bill in the Texas House aimed at shoring up the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s funding models while temporarily freezing Coastal policy premiums is a few votes away from becoming law.

At about 4 p.m. today, jurors in San Patricio County began discussing the criminal case of Robstown Utility Board Trustee Robert Gonzalez.

Testimony has started in the voter fraud trial of Robstown utility board trustee Robert Gonzalez.

Two other people, 77-year-old Rosita Flores and 57-year-old Cynthia Kay Gonzalez, have pleaded guilty in similar voter fraud cases out of Robstown.

Nueces County Chief Appraiser Ronnie Canales tells 6 Investigates refining giant Valero is denying appraisers access to their Nueces County properties in what he considers a new tactic in the running battle over the company’s annual property tax valuations.

Packery Channel is in worse shape than it was after being damaged by Hurricane Harvey.

Packery Channel needs some major repairs and it’s going to cost millions of dollars to fix it.

The man tapped by the City Council to lead the embattled IT department out of its recent troubles is up for a contract extension, 6 Investigates has learned.

The city is paying one man big money to fix the city’s broken utility-billing system. And, it looks like he’s making progress.

Texas lawmakers have taken a key step late yesterday in the Republican-led push to overhaul state tax laws. It’s a topic 6 Investigates tackled last week.

The fight to keep a popular gulf-side restaurant is expected to head to Washington, D.C.

Unlike school districts, which receive billions in state tax funding, city and county governments depend largely on ad valorem (property) taxes to function

State lawmakers wonder if a one-size-fits-all reform approach to stem rising property tax rates does more harm than good.

County taxing entities revenue millions a year from new properties that come online and yet, they’re not included in local budgets.

The “Boeing Decision,” a Texas Supreme Court ruling that says private businesses doing business with public entities can withhold key financial information about those dealings, if releasing it puts the business at a competitive disadvantage.

A charitable foundation is now involved in discussions to keep the doors open at a popular island restaurant that shouldn’t be on a public pier.

A woman told police she was sexually assaulted by her doctor, and her case was treated similar to a traffic ticket.

6 Investigates uncovered an uncomfortable fact after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in 2017.

The city of Corpus Christi claims to be cash strapped while it struggles to pay for street maintenance and other big ticket items. 

Robstown’s effort to divert water from developed to undeveloped areas is causing a big problem for a farmer near Robstown.

Some states are beginning to see legal challenges to the Trump administration’s rule banning bump stocks,  after March 26.

So far, Corpus Christi ISD has spent nearly $10 million for a new Mary Carroll High School campus. The bulk of the money – nearly $8 million of it – paid for the land, which is a 60-acre site off Saratoga Boulevard near Weber Road. But it’s that location which has raised safety concerns by […]

Mayor Joe McComb’s comments follow a KRIS 6 report showing several candidates left their previous jobs under questionable circumstances, raising concerns that the council may not have received all of the information needed to make an informed decision.

Corpus Christi school officials have listened to concerns about the location of the new Mary Carroll High School campus, but aren’t sharing details about what comes next, if anything.

Corpus Christi Citgo executive Alirio Zambrano and five other Citgo executives remain jailed in Venezuela almost 16 months since their arrest by Venezuelan authorities, but, the family wants the people of Corpus Christi to know that the support pouring in is making a difference.

6 Investigates uncovered several problems​ with the way those centers have been managed, in the past, including lax accounting controls and a lack of oversight.

You may recognize the city’s new interim IT Director. He was part of the news cycle late last year, as the city struggled to get a handle of some pretty big utility billing problems.

The report, released to lawmakers in January, is an overview of the state’s hail- and windstorm-insurer of last resort for more than 200,000 properties on the Texas Gulf Coast.

A local judge has dismissed a lawsuit against KRIS 6 News by a car dealer who accused the news station of inaccurate reporting. KRIS 6 News aired a series of investigative reports beginning in August about claims that Corpus Christi Subaru sold cars and failed to transfer the titles as required by s

After months of negotiations behind the scenes, a developer’s plan to build a Southside sports complex appeared in front of city leaders Tuesday evening, but raised even more questions and left the project’s future uncertain. “The proposal that is being considered today is worlds apart from the orig

Corpus Christi Citgo employee Alirio Zambrano thought nothing of being summoned to Caracas, Venezuela, for a meeting in late November 2017.