The small area of land in southern Texas where SpaceX launches its rockets will become an official city after a nearly unanimous vote by residents.

Local officials certified the election results creating the new City of Starbase after opposition from local activist groups.

Critics of Elon Musk and SpaceX say that a new city will give more power to a company they believe is harming the environment ...

So at least two-thirds of the folks eligible to vote in Saturday's election "either work for SpaceX or ... the vehicle will make Mars settlement — a long-held dream of Musk's — economically feasible ...

Voters, many of them SpaceX employees, decided to create a municipality with a small local government in the once-quiet Boca ...

City leaders, who will be elected in May, will have just a short window to decide what services to provide, like police or ...

"The election ... reusable. SpaceX thinks the vehicle will make Mars settlement — a long-held dream of Musk's — economically feasible at long last. Making Starbase a city is a step along ...

A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was approved by a small group of Texas voters who live there and are ...

The Texas Newsroom obtained a list of the 283 voters eligible to cast a ballot in the Starbase special election. More than three in five work for SpaceX ... the city would “streamline the processes ...

And now the time has come: The election ... SpaceX thinks the vehicle will make Mars settlement — a long-held dream of Musk's — economically feasible at long last. Making Starbase a city ...

SpaceX's Super Heavy booster is pictured on the launch pad at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, where staffers at the company voted to incorporate a new city nearby, also naming it Starbase.