Author: Emily Welker

Thinking Green: Laundry

Get your whites green (and white again).

It can be a dirty business, making our environment as clean as possible. So when it comes to taking care of Mother Earth, you’re also going to need to know how to remove the earth you’ve acquired on your clothes in the process. Turns out there is a greener, more environmentally-friendly way to wash your laundry. Let Danny Lipford fill…

Ask Danny: Choosing The Right Gutters

Protect your home's foundation with these inside tips.

When it comes to choosing new gutters, it isn’t just aesthetics you have to keep in mind. Gutters need to be good because they keep water away from the foundation of your home. And even in the midst of our drought in region, we’re still getting some precipitation. You don’t want to find out the hard way you made the…

Melinda’s Garden: Controlling Bad Bugs

The good, the bad and the ugly.

Not all bugs are bad. When it comes to the garden, though, when bugs are bad, they’re horrid. Sure, there are pesticides available commercially, but then you’re putting chemicals on your plants you may not want or need. Melinda Myers shows us some quick fixes you can try, including encouraging beneficial bugs, before you break out the chemical applications to…

Tech Tip Today: Corralling Data Costs

It's already expensive. Don't make it worse.

Even the savviest smartphone plan shopper out there likely is already spending a pretty penny on their phone plan. Family or individual, phones and their plans don’t often come cheap these days. What can really rankle is when you add additional overage charges on top of it. Let Francie Black show you how to keep your data charges under plan…

Pet Connection: Meet Clark

After a lifetime of disappointments, this old dog is getting new hope.

When someone you love disappoints you, it can be tempting to give up on love. That could have so easily happened to Clark, a ten-or-so-year-old black lab who was found wandering the streets of Minneapolis as a stray by the folks at Diamond In The Ruff. After probably a lifetime as someone’s best buddy, Clark was sick and stranded, alone…

Inner Beauty Makes For Instant Winner: Miss North Dakota Teen USA

Beauty on the inside as well as the outside.

“Beauty is as beauty does” may sound like old-fashioned advice our grandmas gave us. But in the case of the newly crowned Miss North Dakota Teen USA, it’s advice she’s taking to heart. Kilyn Parisien-Hill, a college freshman from Belcourt, ND, visited with the Morning Show’s Emily Welker live in-studio to talk about her recent win, which will see her…

App of the Week: Roomer

Don't blow the vacation budget on last-minute bookings.

There’s still time to book a vacation for later this summer, but this late in the game, it could be tough to buy tickets and get a room without breaking the bank. And you want to have some cash left in the bank to buy ice cream for the family when you get where you’re going, right? Let Francie Black…

Birds Of A Feather: Flocking To The Annual Chicken Show

It's a clucking good time.

Festival season is at its peak here in the Red River Valley, with the Downtown Street Fair and the Red River Valley Fair kicking off over the next few days and county fairs in the works as far as the eye can see. But in Wayne, Nebraska, a spectacle that started almost 40 years ago as a children’s art festival…

Ask Danny: Reducing Heat From Windows

Let the sun shine in. To a point.

When it comes to staying cool during the heat wave that’s expected this week, you need to make sure your home is a safe haven from high temps. That means keeping the sun outside where it belongs. Danny Lipford shows us how to keep the sun’s heat at bay at all your windows in this week’s Ask Danny. Categories: Morning…

Melinda’s Garden: Attracting Pollinators

Beautiful and good for the environment.

When you clear your yard of nothing but grass, you’re not just depriving yourself of the sight of beautiful flowers. You’re also costing yourself the sight of beautiful butterflies. Pollinators like butterflies and moths don’t just serve a decorative function, either. They make it possible for plants to set fruit, which is important for garden yield’s and the world’s food…