Is KRIV biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KRIV in the centre. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is KRIV biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KRIV in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is KRIV left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KRIV in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is KRIV reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for KRIV are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What KRIV has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with KRIV’s own report linked underneath.
New Mexico filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Justice and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, accusing them of withholding unredacted files critical to its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. The state says repeated requests for information were ignored or denied, hindering its probe into alleged sex crimes.
KRIV reported it asNew Mexico sues federal government for release of Epstein files (opens KRIV in a new tab)
The US Department of Health and Human Services will pay Burke Law Group up to $150 million to provide legal services for unaccompanied migrant children. The firm has no immigration lawyers and was founded by former Trump administration officials. Advocacy groups allege the contract is linked to demands for confidential client data.
KRIV reported it asHouston law firm led by former Trump appointee gets $150M contract to represent migrant children (opens KRIV in a new tab)
Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) announced he will not seek re-election after the House Ethics Committee found substantial evidence of sexual harassment. The committee recommended censure, citing lavish gifts and inappropriate behavior toward two women staffers. Edwards will complete his current term.
KRIV reported it asRep. Chuck Edwards ends campaign after ethics committee cites inappropriate conduct (opens KRIV in a new tab)
The US Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC director on 5 August 2026, ending a nearly year-long vacancy. Schwartz, the agency’s 22nd director, takes over an agency that has lost over a quarter of its workforce since 2025 and faced repeated leadership changes under the Trump administration.
KRIV reported it asErica Schwartz: Who is the new CDC director? (opens KRIV in a new tab)
Scientists used CRISPR to edit a gene in beagles, producing two dogs whose saliva and hair no longer contain the main allergy-causing protein. The beagles were born in September 2024 and tested on a researcher with dog allergies, who showed no reaction to their samples.
KRIV reported it asThese gene-edited beagles could provide hope for dog-loving allergy sufferers (opens KRIV in a new tab)
Researchers used CRISPR to edit a gene in beagles, producing two puppies without the main allergy-causing protein. The study, published in the CRISPR Journal, found the dogs' saliva and fur lacked the protein, and a scientist with severe allergies showed no reaction. Ethical concerns about shelter adoptions were raised.
KRIV reported it asThese gene-edited beagles could provide hope for dog-loving allergy sufferers (opens KRIV in a new tab)
Four consecutive polls show James Talarico ahead of Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race, with leads ranging from two to three points. Republican groups have not reserved ad spending in the state, while Paxton’s campaign dismisses the results as premature.
KRIV reported it asBlack Texas voters favor Talarico, but frustration with Democrats runs high (opens KRIV 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
Who owns it
- Fox Television StationsCorporationdirect owner
- Fox CorporationMedia Conglomerateparent group
- Murdoch familyMedia Conglomerateparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Houston, Harris County, Texas, United States
- Official site
- fox26houston.com
- Seen publishing on
- fox26houston.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
- 7
- Reports listed
- 7
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
7 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. KRIV is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of KRIV: its report arrived a median of 22 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 August 2026. Ratings pulled 8 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as KRIV, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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