Author: Emily Welker

LIVE: Plains Art Museum Indigenous Art Fair

Whether it's early holiday shopping or just a present for you, they've got you covered.

It’s getting colder. We’re all going to be spending a lot more time indoors, looking at the walls. So why not get some new art to make things look a little more exciting? The Plains Art Museum is hosting its seventh annual Indigenous Art Fair this weekend. It’s been on the back burner the past couple of years because of…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Pandora

Life with Pandora would never be boring.

If you’re looking to open up a box of the best kind of trouble around, look no further than Pandora. She’s half husky, half pit bull, and all-around charming. Huskies are a high-energy breed, and she’s definitely got those genes working in her. She’s also very cuddly and affectionate, and quite food-motivated so she should be easy to train. At…

LIVE: New Performing Arts/Events Center

A new bit of sparkle for the often-overlooked southern valley.

The southern valley is looking to add a little extra sparkle with a brand-new, multi-million dollar, five hundred-plus seat performing arts venue. And they say they’re eighty percent of the way to their fundraising goal. There’s a public fundraiser set for next month, called the “Diamond on the Prairie Performing Arts and Events Center” celebration. Committee members say they need…

LIVE: JDRF Walk To Fight Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes

We'd love to see you there.

We’ve talked the talk for weeks now. Now it’s time to walk the walk. The JDRF One Walk Against Type One juvenile diabetes is Saturday at 10 at the Scheels Arena. KVRR is a media sponsor of the event, and we’d love for you to join us there. The money raised through the walk goes toward research and advocacy to…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Dougal

They call him "the beefcake."

This beefy boy may be made out of pure muscle, but in fact, the biggest muscle on Dougan the pit bull is his big, loving heart. And just because he looks like he spends most of the day in the gym doesn’t mean he wouldn’t rather be hanging out on your couch snuggling with you instead. Karen Schneider with 4…

LIVE: Election Analysis with Dr. Barbara Headrick

She's got experience reading the signs for our region.

When you want to make sense of politics in the Upper Midwest, there’s one person you call — MSUM’s Dr. Barbara Headrick. She’s been following and breaking down the local, regional and political races for politics watcher for years. And now, she’s doing it for us. Dr. Headrick Zoomed in to the Morning Show to talk about the standouts, the…

Ghoul Morning: Finding The Killer’s Identity

The minds behind one of the most amazing, lifesaving Facebook groups you'll ever seen.

They are by turns delicious and deadly, innocent and intoxicating, remarkable and wholly ordinary. They are the plants and mushrooms spreading silently around us, and the wrong encounter with one could cost your child, your pet, your elderly loved one, even you,  your life. So now, a Facebook group 300-plus experts strong has sprung up, with members all around the…

Moorhead Police respond to disturbance involving Minnesota Senate candidate

Dan BohmerMOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Republican state Senate candidate Dan Bohmer, who’s facing fallout from a controversial DFL caucus attack ad, was the subject of a police call in Moorhead Wednesday night. A police report obtained through an open records request by KVRR News shows police responded to a Moorhead home during a child exchange between Bohmer and his ex-wife,…

Dia De Los Muertos in Downtown Fargo

Park yourself for awhile tonight at Broadway Square with the Fargo Park District.

It’s a chance to connect with a culture you may not know about tonight — as well as to connect with your friends and loved ones, both living and not. It’s the Dia de los Muertos celebration in downtown Fargo’s Broadway Square, and it’s got something for everyone in your family. The holiday, which has indigenous roots from the Central…

Ghoul Morning: The Concordia Theatre Ghost

He might be one of the best-known Concordians who ever lived. Problem is, we have no idea if he was ever actually alive.

MOORHEAD — The name Al Gersbach is instantaneously familiar to generation after generation of Concordia college alums. Going back decades, you can find his name on program after program at the Comstock Theatre. He’s been billed as a spiritual adviser for “Godspell,” a hematologist on a slasher play, even once doing a turn as a feather boa. So who is…