Author: Emily Welker

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Noell

Talk about a great deal -- that's at least a cat and a half, for the price of one!!!

Noell is a cat with some serious floof factor. The fluffy ten-year-old turned up at the pound before he was rescued by workers at Homeward Animal Shelter, and the giant furball has turned out to be a friend to everybody. Dogs. Cats. Kids. Adults. You name it, Noell never met an individual he didn’t like. As a matter of fact,…

Tech Tip Today: Rocketbook

Save a tree, go high-tech.

We’re all about anything that lets us go paperless on the Morning Show. Heck, we’d better be. In a two-hour show, the number of pages we go through every morning just to print our scripts weighs in at least a couple of pounds. Francie Black shows us the latest in paperless technology for a notebook that’ll help you save a…

App of the Week: Voice Access

Just in time, you can text without using your hands.

Minnesota lawmakers are pursuing a new law that would create a new hands-free phones only requirement for drivers in the state. So today’s App of the Week couldn’t have come at a better time. Find out from Francie Black why this app could come in quite handy. Categories: Morning – Features

Thinking Green: Radiant Heating

You'll be radiant with joy finding out how to stay warm and save the planet.

We’ve suffered through some pretty horrific cold weather this past season. But the damp chill associated with spring thaw – especially overnight – will make it tough to turn down the thermostat for at least another few weeks. Fortunately, Danny Lipford has a home heating solution that can save you a few degrees on the thermostat – and help you save…

Ask Danny: Ceiling Fans

Get them into your energy-saving rotation.

Spring is on the way, and with it, relief from our high monthly heating bills. However, cooling costs are just around the corner. Home improvement expert Danny Lipford lets us in on the secret of how ceiling fans can help turn your high energy costs around in this week’s Ask Danny. Categories: Morning – Features

LIVE: Shift Happens & PolyAware

Why a little-known polyamory group could provide surprising insight into our own relationships.

It’s one of the least well-understood subgroups in love relationships, and in fact, it’s only been recognized a few years as a social phenomenon. So it might surprise you that a group devoted to polyamory — or relationships that feature consensual non-monogamy — is alive and well and operating right here in the Red River Valley. It’s a group called…

Fargo Film Festival: Rosewood Ledge

A lake house, a model, a photographer, and a Coen brothers veteran.

It’s one of the latest offerings of the independent film scene, and it’s here in Fargo — along with its director and stars. Rosewood Ledge is the story of a model and her photographer boyfriend who visit a lake house for a photoshoot and encounter a strange request from the homeowner who lives there. It stars Kristin Rudrud, who you’ll likely…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Batman

He needs a home. And a sidekick.

Dark, mysterious, muscular, with an intense and arresting gaze like his namesake, Batman the cat has a similarly sad backstory. The handsome black shorthair was found all alone in the world by rescue workers who brought him in for fostering through Diamond in the Ruff pet rescue. And now, he’s unmasking himself long enough to visit live in studio with…

LIVE: Yay! for the YEA! Winner

We're fit to be tied over this girl's brilliant idea for a new business.

Shark Tank is going to the dogs. The Chamber’s Young Entrepreneurs’ Academy Investor Panel Shark Tank has a winner this morning, and she’s headed to Rochester, New York for the national competition. Winner Ivy Mastrud is the CEO of new business BowWow Bo-ties. That is, when she’s not at her day job, which is being a 7th grader at Ben…

App of the Week: Outpatient

An insider tip for helping the senior in your life.

We are super lucky here in the upper Midwest — we’ve got more seniors per capita than practically any other region in the country. That means we have the resources of their maturity, their wisdom, their ability to spoil our kids’ appetites with candy before dinnertime. But having a big aging senior population can also come with some challenges. Francie…