Since 2019, the skies off the coasts of South Padre Island and Boca Chica Beach in the Rio Grande Valley have become a tourist-drawing spectacle as SpaceX journeys toward sending a Super ...

South Texans are celebrating a victory over SpaceX after a controversial proposal to cede control of public beach and road closures to the private company died in the state House. The legislation ...

Texas lawmakers agreed to give the new city of Starbase the authority to periodically close down a South Texas beach, giving more power to municipal officials with close ties to SpaceX over the ...

Proposed legislation that would have handed authority to SpaceX to issue closures of Boca Chica Beach and the nearby road died after a vote by state lawmakers on Monday. The vote was close, with seven ...

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Visitors hoping for some beach time in parts of South Texas may soon be denied by SpaceX the opportunity to catch some rays. A bill currently making its way through the state Legislature would, if ...

Elon Musk’s fledgling space city now controls a stretch of South Texas coastline under a new state law and agreement with Cameron County — another sign of the tech billionaire’s growing influence in ...

Legislation that would give SpaceX — via the city of Starbase — the authority to control the closures of a state highway and a popular public beach is one step away from becoming the new law of the ...

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