KIFI media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KIFI in the centre. We have seen it on 457 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is KIFI biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KIFI in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is KIFI left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KIFI in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is KIFI reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for KIFI are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What KIFI has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with KIFI’s own report linked underneath.
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will campaign with former primary rival Rep. Haley Stevens in Detroit. This marks their first joint public appearance in months, with Rep. Jim Clyburn also set to attend a get-out-the-vote event.
KIFI reported it asHow an attempt at Democratic unity exploded with Stevens’ Senate endorsement flip (opens KIFI in a new tab)
A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch. The case concerned a story about Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein and a sexually suggestive birthday letter. The judge found Trump did not prove actual malice.
KIFI reported it asJudge throws out DOJ attempt to delay certification of Alaska Senate race (opens KIFI in a new tab)
A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch. The case concerned a story about Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein and a sexually suggestive birthday letter. The judge found Trump did not prove actual malice.
KIFI reported it asJudge tosses Trump’s lawsuit against Wall Street Journal again, this time for good (opens KIFI in a new tab)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied facilitating Flávio Bolsonaro's departure from Brazil to the United States. While Rubio stated President Trump authorized Bolsonaro's entry, he asserted the US government was not involved in arranging the travel itself.
KIFI reported it asRubio Says the U.S. "Was Not Directly Involved" in Flávio Bolsonaro's Departure From Brazil After the Elections (opens KIFI in a new tab)
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that Tehran is in close contact with mediators regarding a seven-day plan to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. US President Donald Trump denied directing peace talks but approved outreach for medical supplies.
KIFI reported it asMiddle East on edge as fears mount the Iran war could restart after the midterms (opens KIFI in a new tab)
Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey are asking a federal judge to halt a third criminal case against him. The Justice Department filed the charges using a 'criminal information' instead of a grand jury, a move Comey's team calls legally invalid.
KIFI reported it asJustice Department tells judge it may bring more charges against James Comey (opens KIFI in a new tab)
The United States cancelled a planned group photo at the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Atlanta due to deep rifts among member nations. Several European diplomats objected to standing alongside Russia's top diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, leading to the cancellation.
KIFI reported it asG20 photo scrapped amid tensions over Russian foreign minister’s presence (opens KIFI in a new tab)
Maya Gebala, who was shot three times in an attack in Tumbler Ridge, is being released from BC Children's Hospital after 262 days. Her father posted a video of the moment she learned she was going home.
KIFI reported it as‘Bravest person I know’: Father’s pride as school shooting victim leaves hospital after 262 days (opens KIFI in a new tab)
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security issue on its platform. Stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle have frozen billions of dollars in assets connected to the incident, while Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao stated user funds remain safe.
KIFI reported it asWorld’s largest crypto exchange hit by world’s largest heist (opens KIFI in a new tab)
Mohamed Soliman pleaded guilty to nine federal hate-crime counts and three federal weapon charges for a June 2025 firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado. He is already serving a life sentence for state convictions related to the same attack, which killed one demonstrator and injured about a dozen others.
KIFI reported it asMan pleads guilty to federal hate crimes in deadly firebomb attack on Colorado demonstrators (opens KIFI in a new tab)
US news outlets will announce midterm election winners before all votes are tallied, using data from the Associated Press or Decision Desk HQ. These providers use vote counts, statistical analysis, and modeling to project outcomes, though past race calls have been retracted.
KIFI reported it asDemocrats in striking distance: New CNN polls in four states highlight party’s path to Senate majority (opens KIFI in a new tab)
The US has expelled a Cuban diplomat following a heated exchange at the UN General Assembly. Ambassador Mike Waltz stated the diplomat shoved and attempted to assault an American staffer, leading Secretary of State Marco Rubio to sign the expulsion papers.
KIFI reported it asTrump administration kicks out Cuban diplomat from US as tensions rise (opens KIFI in a new tab)
At a Fort Myers rally, President Donald Trump unveiled a programme to recruit nurses for nursing homes. Reports differ on the funding level, $250 million or $275 million, and on the number of nurses to be hired, ranging from more than 4,000 to at least 5,000.
KIFI reported it asHell will freeze over before Havana gives in to Trump. But regular Cubans don’t have that long (opens KIFI in a new tab)
Scientists have identified an icy object, named 2026 ED138, orbiting the sun beyond Pluto. The object's size is estimated between 600 and 1,500 kilometres in diameter. Classification as a dwarf planet depends on further study.
KIFI reported it asAstronomers spot a new dwarf planet candidate beyond Pluto (opens KIFI in a new tab)
A zookeeper at Beekse Bergen Safari Park in the Netherlands has died from injuries sustained in a leopard attack. The incident occurred while the employee was working in an enclosure with two male Persian leopards.
KIFI reported it asDutch zookeeper dies after being attacked by leopard (opens KIFI in a new tab)
Former President Barack Obama ridiculed President Donald Trump’s White House renovation as resembling a Saddam Hussein‑opened Cheesecake Factory during Ohio and Michigan campaign events nine days before the 2026 U.S. midterms. Digests reported two cost estimates, $900 million and over a billion dollars, and varied in what they highlighted.
KIFI reported it asThe Cheesecake Factory’s longtime design boss says it looks nothing like the Trump White House (opens KIFI in a new tab)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent mocked former President Barack Obama after Obama compared White House renovations to a Cheesecake Factory. Bessent made his remarks while at a Cheesecake Factory, and Trump also responded to Obama's comments.
KIFI reported it asThe Cheesecake Factory’s longtime design boss says it looks nothing like the Trump White House (opens KIFI in a new tab)
A localized ceasefire in Oleshky, Ukraine, brokered by First Lady Melania Trump, began on Tuesday to facilitate humanitarian aid. This comes as President Zelenskyy reported a significant overnight barrage of Russian missiles and drones.
KIFI reported it asMelania Trump-brokered one-city ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine takes effect (opens KIFI in a new tab)
A federal appeals court has rejected the Justice Department's request to set aside approximately 20,000 California mail-in ballots alleged to be from noncitizens. The case has been sent back to a district court for further proceedings.
KIFI reported it asAppeals court rejects Trump DOJ demand to set aside 20,000 California mail ballots (opens KIFI in a new tab)
A federal judge has ruled that Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was unlawfully fired from her position as an assistant United States attorney. The judge ordered her reinstatement, stating the termination violated civil service rules and constitutional separation of powers.
KIFI reported it asJudge: Maurene Comey was illegally fired from Justice Department (opens KIFI in a new tab)
Who says so
3 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
Who owns it
- News-Press & Gazette CompanyMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Idaho Falls, Bonneville County, Idaho, United States
- Official site
- localnews8.com
- Seen publishing on
- localnews8.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
- 457
- Reports listed
- 477
- We could read
- 121
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
356 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 121 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. KIFI is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 457 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than KIFI’s on 7 of them. Overall it filed a median of 24 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 3 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 3 November 2026. Ratings pulled 5 October 2026.
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