Author: Emily Welker

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…

Tech Tip Today: Google Jobs

We use it for everything else. Why not this?

You use Google to search for the perfect new outfit, the replacement parts for your dishwasher, the best deal on airline flights, when the Gettysburg address was performed (it was November 19, 1863) and for incriminating details about your blind date next Tuesday. So why not use it in your job search? Francie Black shows us how to score a…

Pet Connection: Meet Gibbs

A little boy with a lot of love to give.

There’s a reason why people love puppies. Gibbs came to the KVRR Morning Show to visit live in-studio with his buddy, Homeward Animal Shelter worker Heather Klefstad, and found his way right into everyone’s hearts. The nine-month-old shepherd cross was rescued from the pound with a case of non-contagious mange, and you can still see the faint marks from it…

Thinking Green: Detecting Drafts

Staying cool isn't just about cranking up the air conditioning in summer.

When it comes to beating the heat, it’s not all about turning up the air and the ceiling fan as high as they’ll go. Sometimes, you need to get buttoned up tight before you can cool down. Danny Lipford shows us how to detect drafts all around your home that will suck the cool air out and keep you from…