Author: Emily Welker

LIVE: Get The Garden Party Started

Gardenpalooza's the biggest gardener gathering of the early spring season -- and it's coming up fast.

To heck with the snow from today – you can get your garden on now, six-foot snowdrifts or not. As a matter of fact, you’d better get moving on the biggest garden party in town pronto. That’s because the final reservations are going fast for the second annual Gardenpalooza. It’s a daylong event next month that attracts gardeners from all…

LIVE: ND Humanities and Mortician Caitlin Doughty

The author of "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" with an eye-opening look at how we look at death and dying.

Dying, and death, is one of the top taboo topics in our culture. But an expert on death and funeral practices who’s coming to Fargo this week says treating it that way might be a mistake. Humanities North Dakota is bringing author and mortician Caitlin Doughty to Fargo next month. Doughty is credited as having helped launch the modern “death…

LIVE: The Nice Thing About Ice

You don't have to put your fun on the ice just because it's still cold outside.

Sick of all the ice outside? There’s one way to make it fun while we wait for spring to hit. This weekend, you can catch young athletes taking a spin on the ice at the Moorhead Sports Center for the Moorhead Ice Show. Coaches say it’s a great way to get kids active who may not be into team sports….

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Kraft

Do you have a taste for fun? Kraft's your boy.

If you’re thinking a mastiff mix must come complete with that laid-back, sedentary, couch-potato personality that mastiffs have a reputation for, think again. Kraft is a a big beautiful boy who’s all about being active, and even though he’s two or three years old, he came bouncing into the studio with plenty of puppy energy to play and do tricks…

North Dakota Air National Guard helps rescue people trapped at sea near Guam

Pilots in Fargo flew the MQ-9 Reaper remotely with help from others overseas

FARGO (KVRR) – A routine training mission for the North Dakota Air National Guard recently turned into real-life drama. Members of the National Guard’s 119th Wing were training at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam in February when the scenario quickly changed. Major Nick Hanson says a Fargo-based MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle was ordered into action to locate a…

LIVE: Something’s Brewing at Brewhalla

The big opening is nigh.

FARGO — The metro is less than 24 hours away from the much-anticipated opening of destination dining, shopping, entertainment and events center Brewhalla. It shares a footprint near downtown with Drekker Brewing, and it’s the brainchild of Drekker founder Mark Bjornstad. Brewhall offers a food hall experience, launching with about a dozen partner businesses, including a wine and oyster bar,…

LIVE: The Sounds of St. Patrick’s Day

We've got your St. Patrick's Day entertainment in the bag(pipe) for you.

MOORHEAD — Want to sound  off about your Irish heritage? Or celebrate your Scottish, or English, Welsh, or Gaelic background in general? Then come out for the annual Celtic Festival this weekend at Moorhead’s Hjemkomst Center. The Morning Show just couldn’t wait, so we welcomed the traditional Irish music group Heather and Thistle to get us in the mood. You…

Juror In Rodriguez, Jr. Case Speaking Out After Death Penalty Is Dropped

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — One of the twelve jurors who decided Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr. should be executed for kidnapping and murdering Dru Sjodin is speaking out. Luke Lillehaugen was part of the six-week long, three-part trial in 2006 that left Rodriguez sitting on death row in federal prison in Indiana. He says the prospect of Rodriguez getting off death row…

LIVE: St. Patrick’s Day Preps with Beer & Fish

We're getting corny on the Morning Show.

If you’re hoping for a traditional corned beef and cabbage meal on St. Patrick’s Day, better plan to line up early. Restaurateur Bert Myers, who owns Dempsey’s Irish Pub as well as Beer & Fish and both Wurst Bier Halls, says his corned beef sells out fast every year. They start serving at about 11 a.m., and it’s usually gone…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Otis

Haircut notwithstanding, this guy is really handsome.

Have you ever come away from the salon with a haircut you just knew wasn’t doing you any favors? Now imagine having to go on TV with your new ‘do, and you’ll know exactly what Otis is going through. This fluffy fellow came to the Morning Show with his friend Heather Klefstad from Homeward Animal Shelter, and he’s definitely feeling…