City staff with Keller, Roanoke and Fort Worth have released closings and service updates for Jan. 26 due to icy weather conditions from Winter Storm Fern.

What's happening: Keller's trash services for Jan. 26 have been cancelled and the public works teams are continuing to plow ice and add salt/sand mixes to city roads, according to the city's website. 

Fort Worth officials said on the city's website that all library locations and book drops will be closed Jan. 26 and emergency overnight overflow shelters are available for individuals experiencing homelessness. 

Solid waste residential collections will not occur Jan. 26. The operations for Jan. 27 will be determined based on the weather conditions. Alternate residential collection schedule details for Jan. 26-30 will be available on the city's website based on information from partners and facilities.

All early voting polling locations in Tarrant County were closed Jan. 25 and the polling locations will have delayed openings Jan. 26 due to icy weather conditions from Winter Storm Fern.

What’s happening? A special election was called for the State Senate District 9 runoff race, with candidates Democrat Taylor Rehmet and Republican Leigh Wambsganss facing off for the position.

All 22 early polling locations in Tarrant County closed Jan. 25, and the county’s election website states that polling locations will open late Jan. 26 due to safety concerns stemming from the storm.

According to the note on the county’s election website, early voters should check back Jan. 26 to see an updated list of open polling locations and the opening times for those locations.

The backstory: The race moved to a runoff after neither Rehmet nor Wambsbanss garnered more than 50% of the vote needed to win the race and fill the spot during the Nov. 4 general election.

• www.kellerisd.net/weather
• www.nisdtx.org/weather

The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is under an Extreme Cold Warning from Sunday night until 9 a.m. Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.

What's happening: Temperature highs are estimated to remain in the 20s with the lows in the teens and single digits through Tuesday morning, according to the NWS's Fort Worth/Dallas office. Wind chills will range from -10 to 0 degrees Monday morning in DFW.

Wind chill values will make "Feels Like" temps as cold as -10 degrees with low temperatures ranging from -1 to 14 degrees across North Texas, per the NWS. The extreme temperatures create hazards for hypothermia and frozen pipes. 

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field continue to see cancellations due to Winter Storm Fern.

Zooming in: According to Flightaware.com, more than 1,000 flights to or from the Dallas metro area were also canceled on Jan. 25.

As of 3:35 p.m. Jan. 25, there have been 537 flights into DFW Airport and 518 flights out of DFW Airport canceled. In terms of delays, 180 flights are arriving at DFW Airport and 184 flights are trying to depart. According to the website, the average departure delay is 43 minutes.

Also of note: Dallas Love Field has had 133 flights canceled from there and 127 flights into Love Field canceled Jan. 25.

Delay-wise, there are a combined 47 delays for Love Field.

Stay tuned: There are already more than 200 cancellations for Jan. 26.

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A set of permanent regulations for thousands of Texas businesses selling consumable hemp products took effect Jan. 21, after the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission adopted them one day earlier.

The overview: The latest hemp rules do not bring significant changes to the roughly 60,000 businesses under TABC oversight. They replace similar emergency rules adopted Sept. 23, prohibiting Texas alcohol retailers from selling hemp-derived THC products to customers under 21 years old.

“The key you heard today… is the effect of THC on younger folks' development—much like alcohol, the same reasons we regulate alcohol for those 21 years old [and up],” TABC chair Robert Eckels said.

Zooming in: The TABC has limited jurisdiction over the consumable hemp industry and can only require age limits and ID checks, agency leaders said. State health officials are considering more comprehensive regulations on the industry.

“The Department of State Health Services’ rules are going to be much more robust,” TABC general counsel James Person said Jan. 20. “They actually cover the products themselves: the [THC] content, the testing and whatnot."