Grand Forks Herald media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Grand Forks Herald one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 11 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Grand Forks Herald biased?
The rating organisations do not give Grand Forks Herald one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Grand Forks Herald left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Grand Forks Herald one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Grand Forks Herald reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Grand Forks Herald are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Grand Forks Herald has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Grand Forks Herald’s own report linked underneath.
Over 250 current and former members of Congress have urged the US Supreme Court to deny a request to pause a ruling blocking parts of a USPS mail-in voting rule. They argue the rule and a related executive order unconstitutionally infringe on Congress's authority over federal elections.
Grand Forks Herald reported it asPort: ND secretary of state among officials asking Supreme Court to block Trump's mail ballot order (opens Grand Forks Herald in a new tab)
ICE officer Christian Castro has been federally charged with making false statements about the January shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis. Federal authorities had initially accused Sosa-Celis of assaulting an officer, but dropped charges after video evidence emerged.
Grand Forks Herald reported it asReports: Federal prosecutors charge ICE agent with false statements in Minnesota shooting (opens Grand Forks Herald in a new tab)
A coneflower exhibiting a two-headed mutation is a result of environmental triggers, according to reports. This phenomenon was covered across multiple outlets, with reader questions about gardening also noted.
Grand Forks Herald reported it asTwo-headed coneflower is a mutation triggered by environment (opens Grand Forks Herald in a new tab)
A federal judge has refused to order Texas to extradite ICE officer Christian Castro to Minnesota, where he faces assault and false reporting charges. Castro is accused of shooting a man in the leg through a home's front door.
Grand Forks Herald reported it asTexas judge denies Minnesota request, clearing way for release of ICE agent charged in Minnesota (opens Grand Forks Herald in a new tab)
A series of reports and the first episode of a podcast about Harvey Carignan, a serial killer born in North Dakota, have been released. The content is available in e-editions and online.
Grand Forks Herald reported it asA closer look at Harvey Carignan (opens Grand Forks Herald in a new tab)
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a new nationwide initiative to improve search-and-rescue responses for missing people with autism. The program seeks to establish an autism-specific alert system to quickly disseminate critical information.
Grand Forks Herald reported it asIn Rochester, HHS Secretary Kennedy announces national safety initiative for autistic kids, adults (opens Grand Forks Herald in a new tab)
The US Agriculture Department plans to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, removing logging restrictions on over 40 million acres of national forest. The move, announced by Secretary Brooke Rollins, aims to reduce wildfire risks but is opposed by environmental groups who say it will increase them.
Grand Forks Herald reported it asTrump administration moves to allow logging in 62,000 acres of Superior National Forest (opens Grand Forks Herald in a new tab)
A federal judge dismissed the Department of Justice’s 2025 lawsuit against Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, ruling the demand for the state’s voter rolls amounted to a 'fishing expedition'. The case was one of 23 similar lawsuits filed by the DOJ.
Grand Forks Herald reported it asFederal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit seeking Minnesota’s voter rolls (opens Grand Forks Herald in a new tab)
Several US counties are reviewing contracts with Flock Safety after privacy breaches, including misidentified plates and unauthorised tracking. The company is tightening rules for law enforcement use, while cameras have been vandalised in Colorado. Opposition includes abortion activists, though no left-rated outlet covered the story.
Grand Forks Herald reported it asFlock camera protest in Fargo ends abruptly after fights break out (opens Grand Forks Herald in a new tab)
Naz Reid, traded from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Charlotte Hornets, said he was informed of the possibility 48 hours before the trade was reported. He was en route to the Bahamas when the deal was confirmed. Outlets diverged on whether to lead with the timing or the location of his revelation.
Grand Forks Herald reported it asNaz Reid opens up on trade to Hornets, next chapter after Minnesota (opens Grand Forks Herald in a new tab)
The US Senate passed a bill on 3 August 2026 that includes a one-month delay on federal regulation of intoxicating hemp-derived THC products in Minnesota. The reprieve, part of a short-term funding measure, could be extended beyond December and prevents an immediate ban on the state's hemp-based edibles and drinks industry.
Grand Forks Herald reported it asUS Senate throws Minnesota’s hemp-based THC industry a lifeline (opens Grand Forks Herald in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Forum CommunicationsMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Canada
- Official site
- grandforksherald.com
- Seen publishing on
- grandforksherald.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 11
- Reports listed
- 11
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
11 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 3 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Grand Forks Herald ran the story anyway.
Across the 11 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Grand Forks Herald’s on 2 of them. Overall it filed a median of 20 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 18 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 14 September 2026. Ratings pulled 4 September 2026.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Grand Forks Herald publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
Report something wrong on this page
Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.