Between Friday the 13th falling on a day in October and Halloween just around the corner, it’s a tough time of year to be a black cat. The beautiful animals have long been associated with myths in many cultures about witches and bringing bad luck with them. So we decided to tempt fate a little and brought a black cat…
Saving texts is a thing not just so you don’t have to go scrolling back to conversations you exchanged in 2014 in order to remind yourself of what someone sent you. There are also other good reasons to save text messages, whether it’s cute notes your daughter sent you or explicit instructions about how to find an out-of-the-way location. Let…
They come in all shapes and sizes, colors and flavors, from lobster to shrimp to citrus to oyster. They grow on trees and on the ground, and all around the Upper Midwest. They’ve been linked to relief from cancer side effects like neuropathy and contain all kinds of antioxidants, but they’re some of the most divisive foods for many American…
If you were to encounter Gidget the way her rescuers did, you might not believe your eyes at first: a tiny, geriatric Pomeranian, missing most of her teeth, suffering from an enlarged heart, tottering down the streets of a southern Valley city all by herself in the world. That’s if you didn’t accidentally step on her first. Because at between…
Keeping track of all your business contacts can seem like a full-time job. Keeping track of their business cards shouldn’t be. There are a lot of apps out there to help you do it, true — but how do you know whether they’re efficient, or just another potentially time-consuming task on your to-do list? Let Francie Black help you streamline…
The stock market these days is a little like one of those bouncy clown toys: no matter how many knocks the news headlines lob at it — hurricanes, wildfires, the continuing tensions with North Korea — the market just keeps on bobbing back up. So what does that mean for folks who are trying to plan for retirement right now?…
When it comes to going green, you don’t want your aspirations fueled by fairy tales. There are a lot of myths out there about green living and eco-friendly technology, and there are some real facts scattered in with them. Let Danny Lipford separate the good stuff from the green baloney in this week’s Thinking Green. Categories: Morning – Features
It’s time to take a moment and spruce up some of the items that make your yard look bright, colorful and inviting before the snow flies for the season. Paint can usually do the trick for exterior home projects. But what about the items in the yard that are made of plastic — like your precious pink flamingoes, for instance?…
With a frost advisory throughout much of the Red River Valley region greeting us as we wake up this morning, it’s hard not to sigh a little and think of the end of much of the gardening season for the year. But you don’t have to say goodbye to gardening until the start of spring. Let Melinda Myers show you…
Kooky is the latest little bundle of feathers and fun who’s looking for a forever home courtesy of the rescue workers at Center for Avian Adoption, Rescue and Education, or CAARE here in the Fargo-Moorhead area. He and his handler, Casey Myers, visited the KVRR Morning Show to talk — literally — live with Emily Welker in studio about the…
