Grand Rapids Herald-Review media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Grand Rapids Herald-Review one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 16 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Grand Rapids Herald-Review biased?
The rating organisations do not give Grand Rapids Herald-Review one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Grand Rapids Herald-Review left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Grand Rapids Herald-Review one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Grand Rapids Herald-Review reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Grand Rapids Herald-Review are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Grand Rapids Herald-Review has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Grand Rapids Herald-Review’s own report linked underneath.
Gasoline prices in Michigan increased by 32 cents per gallon over the past week, marking the largest rise of any U.S. state during that period. This significant jump has been noted as one of the largest weekly increases in months.
Grand Rapids Herald-Review reported it asMinnesota gas prices surge nearly 30 cents in a week (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review in a new tab)
Gasoline and diesel prices are expected to increase significantly on Wednesday and Thursday, with analysts pointing to ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Iran as primary drivers. The U.S. average diesel price has reached $6.301 per gallon, and gasoline is at $4.355 per gallon.
Grand Rapids Herald-Review reported it asMinnesota gas prices surge nearly 30 cents in a week (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review 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 Rapids Herald-Review reported it asICE agent charged with false statements in Metro Surge shooting (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review in a new tab)
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged in a Minneapolis shooting has been released from a Texas jail. A judge refused to order his extradition to Minnesota, citing jurisdictional issues, while Texas Governor Greg Abbott awaits an internal state investigation.
Grand Rapids Herald-Review reported it asICE agent accused in Minnesota released from Texas jail (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review in a new tab)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved daraxonrasib, branded as Rasonque, for metastatic pancreatic cancer. In trials, patients taking the drug lived a median of 13.2 months, compared to 6.7 months on chemotherapy.
Grand Rapids Herald-Review reported it asFDA approves breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib nearly doubles survival (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review 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 Rapids Herald-Review reported it asJudge sides with Texas over Minnesota in extradition case involving ICE officer (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review in a new tab)
A major review of 80 randomized controlled trials found that nicotine e-cigarettes were more effective than nicotine replacement therapy for helping people quit smoking. The review involved nearly 30,000 participants and found no evidence of increased serious harm from using e-cigarettes to quit.
Grand Rapids Herald-Review reported it asDoes vaping help smokers quit more than gums and patches? (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review in a new tab)
The Trump administration has proposed rescinding the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which protects 45 million acres of national forest land. Conservation groups warn this could endanger hundreds of species and impact water sources.
Grand Rapids Herald-Review reported it asWhy Trump’s plan to rescind the Roadless Rule protecting national forests will struggle in court (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review in a new tab)
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s phone rang with a duck quack sound during an announcement about a new National Autism Missing and Endangered Person Alert Initiative in Minnesota. The initiative aims to improve responses for missing autistic individuals.
Grand Rapids Herald-Review reported it asNew federal autism safety initiative strengthens coordination (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review in a new tab)
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on 18 August 2026 imposing new restrictions on data center development, including local approval requirements and removal from fast-track permitting. The move reverses his earlier support for such projects and follows bipartisan opposition to their environmental and energy impacts.
Grand Rapids Herald-Review reported it asShapiro signs data center order barring fast-track permitting, NDAs (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review in a new tab)
Actress Hayden Panettiere, 36, was found dead in her Greenville, South Carolina apartment on 16 August 2026. Police and the coroner’s office reported no signs of foul play. Her father confirmed her death in a statement to ABC News, and tributes followed from co-stars and fans.
Grand Rapids Herald-Review reported it asHayden Panettiere’s Death: No Signs of ‘Foul Play or Suspicious Circumstances,’ Police Say (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review in a new tab)
The Department of Homeland Security opened an investigation into left-wing groups in Minnesota following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents. The probe, which included undercover surveillance and financial subpoenas, targeted unions and activist organisations but concluded without evidence of wrongdoing. Fifteen organisers were later indicted under a national security directive.
Grand Rapids Herald-Review reported it asDocuments show how feds spied on protesters, left-wing organizations and unions during Metro Surge (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review in a new tab)
Minnesota's primary elections on 11 August 2026 produced four nominees for the U.S. House: Ilhan Omar (D, 5th District), John Nagel (R, 5th District), Tyler Bass (R, 3rd District) and Matt Little (DFL, 2nd District). No right-rated outlet carried the results.
Grand Rapids Herald-Review reported it asOmar wins Democratic primary for Minnesota House seat (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review in a new tab)
Michele Tafoya secured the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Minnesota on 11 August 2026, overcoming the party-endorsed Adam Schwarze. No Republican has won a Senate seat in the state since 2002. Her campaign focuses on fraud prevention, law enforcement support, and tax cuts.
Grand Rapids Herald-Review reported it asTafoya secures GOP nomination for U.S. Senate (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review in a new tab)
A University of Vienna study used brain scans of twelve dogs to show that happy human faces activate the temporal cortex and caudate nucleus, while anger, fear and sadness produce distinct neural patterns. The findings, published in iScience, suggest dogs can differentiate between specific emotions.
Grand Rapids Herald-Review reported it asCan dogs tell fear from sadness? Brain scans may reveal answer (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review in a new tab)
Stacker compiled rankings of the hottest Augusts in Missouri and six other U.S. states using federal climate data. The 1936 August in Missouri averaged 83.9°F, the highest since records began in 1895. Outlets across the political spectrum published the findings, with varying emphasis on climate trends.
Grand Rapids Herald-Review reported it asHottest Augusts in Minnesota since 1895 (opens Grand Rapids Herald-Review 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.
Very high factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Grand Rapids Herald-Review.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- grandrapidsmn.com
- Seen publishing on
- grandrapidsmn.com
- Access
- Free to read
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
- 16
- Reports listed
- 16
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
16 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 2 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Grand Rapids Herald-Review ran the story anyway.
Across the 16 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Grand Rapids Herald-Review: its report arrived a median of 8 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 22 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 22 September 2026. Ratings pulled 7 September 2026.
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