Author: Emily Welker

Doin’ It Downtown

July's got downtown hopping. Here's how to navigate all the entertainment.

July is hot this year in downtown Fargo. It marks the return of Corks and Canvas, the downtown-wide shopping and wine event, and the start of the Red River Market, with local makers, crafts and foods. It’s also the month of the annual Street Fair, one of Fargo’s biggest shopping and gathering spots for vendors and guests from all around…

Melinda’s Garden: Planting Under Trees

Give a little love to your giving tree.

They give us shade from the sun, shelter from the rain, snacks of fruit, and a swell view of squabbling squirrels playing among their branches. Trees give a lot to any garden space, as well as bringing adding to your home’s property value and cooling your home during hot weather. With all that, though, it can be tough to figure…

Pet Connection: Meet Earl

Actually, you probably already have.

This week’s Pet Connection is a little different than most — because the Belgian Malinois, the breed of dog that’s taking the world of K9 law enforcement work by storm, is a breed a little different than most. Earl, who just retired as one of the Fargo police force’s most decorated dogs, as well as one of its best-known canine…

Tech Tip Today: Google Drive

All hands on deck.

Google Drive can help everyone on your team pitch in, whether it’s making changes to a paper, a picture or a presentation. It’s a way to allow everyone access to a project while it’s in process, instead of passing it back and forth among individual team members. Francie Black walks you through the best ways to access Google Drive in…

App of the Week: Monument Valley II

It's highly recommended by our expert Francie Black.

This week’s App of the Week is a long-awaited new version of one of our tech expert’s favorite apps. Francie Black shows us how Monument Valley II gives us a new perspective on a myriad of stunning and impossible landscapes.

Thinking Green: Carbon Footprint

Adam's a size 15.

We hear a lot about what kind of carbon footprint we leave, but do you really know what it is? Or how to calculate how big yours is? (It isn’t your shoe size, in case you were wondering.) In this week’s Thinking Green, Danny Lipford explains the concept of the carbon footprint for all us carbon-based life forms. Categories: Morning…

New Grads and Money: Getting Educated

This advice makes cents.

We spend a lot of time, effort and money making our way through school to the big graduation day. But while schools teach us about reading, writing and arithmetic, they often leave out money management lessons. Many new grads, both from high school and from college, say they don’t graduate having learned much financial literacy to prepare them for real…

Monarch Monitoring Program

A little insect goes on a great big journey. Here's how you can help.

  It’s a tiny little insect that plays a big role in our ecosystem here in the Red River Valley… but to do it, it has to take an even bigger journey, all the way to Mexico and back. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources naturalist Andrea Wakely stopped by the KVRR Morning Show to sit down with Emily Welker live…

Ask Danny: Squeaking Wood Floors

Is it a ghost? A noisy mouse? Probably there's an easier fix than for either of those.

Are your noisy wood floors keeping you up at night? Sure, the creaking and groaning could be a supernatural haunting of some kind. Or, it could be haunted by a rodent infestation squeaking away under the floorboards. But as Danny Lipford shows us in this week’s installment of Ask Danny, the fix is probably much easier. Categories: Morning – Features

Melinda’s Garden: Layering

Think layering your hair looks good? Try layering in the garden.

This time of year is the time you want to fill up all the spare corners of your yard with as many beautiful new plants as possible. But buying a bunch of new plants at the nursery or garden center can get expensive. Melinda Myers has a cost-effective and nifty technique you can use in your own garden, in this…