{"id":137672,"date":"2026-01-25T17:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/137672\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:39:13","slug":"non-essential-employees-in-e-texas-county-get-extended-weekend-due-to-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/137672\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-essential employees in E. Texas county get extended weekend due to weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CASS COUNTY, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktalnews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTAL\/KMSS;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KTAL\/KMSS<\/a>) \u2013 Road conditions have prompted an East Texas municipality to halt nonessential business operations through Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The winter storm left behind iced roads and caused widespread power outages, prompting Cass County, Texas officials to close all non-essential offices on Monday, January 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stay up to date with the closures, road conditions, and other resources on ktalnews.com or download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktalnews.com\/ktal-news-live-stream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTAL Now app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KTAL Now app<\/a> on Roku, Apple TV, or Fire TV.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktalnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTALnews.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTALnews.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CASS COUNTY, Texas (KTAL\/KMSS) \u2013 Road conditions have prompted an East Texas municipality to halt nonessential business operations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58357,2604,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-137672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-cass-county","tag-east-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}