Emily Welker

Fargo

Anchor, Producer and Reporter at KVRR-TV (Fargo, ND)

Morning show anchor, producer and reporter for KVRR Fargo-Moorhead. Breaking news junkie, dog and human mom, stress baker.

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Articles

LIVE: All Aflutter Over the Great Migration

6 days ago | kvrr.com | Emily Welker

FARGO — Spring recreation season is well underway and that means it’s time to get outside and explore the region’s hidden charms. And for this one, all you have to do is look up. Baltimore orioles, even rarer species like the glossy ibis and winged warblers are on their way through our region right now, part of the spring mass migration of about 150 species of birds that make their way north along the central flyway.
LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Rigatoni

1 week ago | kvrr.com | Emily Welker

FARGO — Talk about a treat for Pet Connection Thursday. Rigatoni the black lab bounced into the studios with a smile as big as his heart and quite a story to share. The seven-year-old senior citizen is getting a new leash on life, having dropped more than 20 pounds from his original 113-pound status since arriving at the 4 Luv of Dog rescue about a year ago. They don’t know much about his back story, but whomever had him before taught him some wonderful manners.
LIVE: Taking F.A.S.T. Action for Stroke Survival

1 week ago | kvrr.com | Emily Welker

FARGO — May is Stroke Awareness Month, and there’s a new online tool that could help you spot the signs. The American Stroke Association is teaming up with Sanford Health to present an online, interactive “F.A.S.T.” site. It stands for “Face Drooping,” “Arm Weakness,” “Speech Difficulty,” and “Time to Call 911.”The online tool uses audio and video examples to help you learn to recognize what it looks like when someone’s showing stroke symptoms.
LIVE: A Part of Your Past Comes to Life

1 week ago | kvrr.com | Emily Welker

WEST FARGO — A new collaboration between NDSU and Bonanzaville is opening up this weekend with three new permanent exhibits, and its creators want to hear from you. NDSU’s Museum Studies students created two of them from artifacts they found within Bonanzaville’s archival collection. They cover Fargo’s frontier origins and the history of Bonanza farms in the region. It’s been a labor of love for the students.
LIVE: Weight On Your Mind? This Study Might Want You

1 week ago | kvrr.com | Emily Welker

FARGO — Your weight and fitness might be on your mind with summer activities coming into focus soon. And the connection between weight, the human mind and the new class of weight-loss drugs on the market is on Concordia researchers’ minds, too. Dr. Betsy Cogan is looking for volunteers in their 50s to 70s, both weight-loss users and non-users alike, to join her study to see if there’s a link between cognition, the drugs, and obesity later in life.
LIVE: How to Hack Your World If You're an Introvert (and it's Stacked Against You)

1 week ago | kvrr.com | Emily Welker

FARGO — If you think you’re an introvert and the world is sort of stacked against you… it might not be your imagination. But counselors say you can take on the world and hack your personality traits to help you flourish in a world geared toward extroverts. That’s the focus of a new, in-person workshop coming up at Concordia College. Counselors say a lot of our culture favors extroverts, who tend to flourish in large group settings.
LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Lavina

2 weeks ago | kvrr.com | Emily Welker

FARGO — It’s our favorite day of the week again, and this week’s Pet Connection cutie is Lavina the domestic shorthair tabby, who came all the way with foster mom Samantha Becker to our studio from Polk County, Minnesota. Lavina came in to Smiley’s Rescue as a baby, along with all her littermates. She is the last of her brothers and sisters to be adopted, but it’s hard to understand why a cat like this wasn’t snapped up by a potential pet parent right away.
LIVE: Swedish Death Cleaning with the Nordic Culture Club

2 weeks ago | kvrr.com | Emily Welker

FARGO — We don’t usually talk about the subject of death as a big draw for summer tourist season. But if you’re thinking ahead of summer festival season in the region, start thinking about summer death cleaning now. The Nordic Culture Club is holding a “Swedish Death Cleaning” fundraiser ahead of this June’s Scandinavian Festival at the Hjemkomst Center.
LIVE: Scoring Points for Mental Health

2 weeks ago | kvrr.com | Emily Welker

FARGO — The Blue Cross Blue Shield Caring Foundation is scoring some points for mental health with the help of some of our local sports teams. They did it with this winter’s “Shut out the Stigma” campaign on hockey rinks around the region. Each goal from local hockey teams, including the Fargo Force — earned a donation from the foundation to the nonprofit Firstlink. Foundation leaders say it raised more than $26,000 for Firstlink’s mental health and suicide call services.
LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Ophelia

3 weeks ago | kvrr.com | Emily Welker

FARGO — Ophelia the cat hasn’t had perhaps as tough a life story as her literary namesake, but the young domestic shorthair still has had plenty of obstacles in her two years of life. She’s very sweet and patient cat who likes to cuddle, and comes to the Morning Show with rescue worker Heather Klefstad of Homeward Animal Shelter.