Author: Emily Welker

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Surly

Save your pet from potential suffering by spaying and neutering.

Surly is kind of the cautionary tale of cats whose owners choose not to spay and neuter their pets. The sweet-natured calico came in to Homeward Animal Shelter with a swollen abdomen, which made rescue workers assume she was pregnant. Further examination showed it wasn’t kittens causing the swelling. It was a massive infection of Surly’s uterus, called a pyometra,…

Tech Tip Today: Outcast Podcast Player

Keep up with your podcasts without schlepping your phone along.

If you’re anything like us and our busy schedules on the Morning Show, you probably find it all but impossible to keep up with all the podcasts you follow. Now there’s a way you can download and play them even when you’re away from your phone. Here’s Francie Black in this week’s Tech Tip Today. Categories: Morning – Features

App of the Week: Steady

Keep a steady stream of cash to your wallet with festival and fun season headed our way.

It may be difficult to believe, as an April snowstorm bears down upon us, butĀ festival season is underway all through the rest of the U.S. And if you want to indulge and your bank account isn’t as flush as you’d like for all those plane and concert tickets, you could have a problem. Fortunately, there’s an app for that. Let…

Thinking Green: Reusing Plastic Bottles

Give new life to old objects instead of burying them in the landfill.

We’re all trying to cut down on the plastics in our life to help the planet out, but it seems like plastic bottles are everywhere you turn. If you can’t cut them out of your life completely, you might be able to find a new use for them. Danny Lipford gives us some creative new ideas to bring new life…

LIVE: Make Your Own Rain Barrel

It couldn't come at a better time.

  We’re looking down the barrel of a long, rainy weekend to come with more precipitation expected over the next week. But hey, that’s early April in the upper Midwest for you. And that’s why these new workshops from River Keepers couldn’t come at a better time. They’re teaming up with the Clay County Water and Soil Conservation District to…

App of the Week: Visor Tax Prep

Tick tick tick tick.

Have you done your taxes yet? The clock is ticking down to the deadline — only 11 days left to go. Now there’s a way to streamline the process and it’s all on your smartphone. Here’s Francie Black with the App of the Week. Categories: Morning – Features

Tech Tip Today: Canva

Shake things up on social media.

We told you Thursday on the Morning Show in business news that Facebook is getting some grief this morning from its users again over privacy concerns. But in spite of all the scrutiny social media gets these days, it seems like it’s almost impossible to get any work done without it. So why not make the experience more fun for…

Thinking Green: Make Your Own Rain Barrel

We're barreling fast toward gardening season.

We’re looking at a couple days’ worth of precipitation this week, according to Marshall. But don’t let that get you down. Instead, why not build yourself a new rain barrel to help out your yard and the environment? Here’s Danny Lipford with this week’s Thinking Green. Categories: Morning – Features

Ask Danny: Painting Vinyl Siding

We're on your side in the struggle to make your siding look good.

We’re finally starting to see some grass emerging under the melting snow and that means it’s time to start thinking about outdoor chores again. Home improvement expert DannyLlipford shows us how a coat of paint can spruce up your vinyl siding in this week’s Ask Danny. Categories: Morning – Features

LIVE: Flood Health Flood Warning

It's cold and wet and really dangerous to drive through. But that's only the beginning.

North Dakota State Department of Health scientists are warning us about serious health risks from our rising flood waters. You might think the biggest danger of dealing with floodwaters is that they’re a muddy mess. ButĀ  as state environmental scientist Christine Roob explained when she sat down live in-studio with the Morning Show’s Emily Welker to talk about it. Flood…