Veronica Flores-Herrera is the Assistant News Director at KRIS/KZTV/KAJA Telemundo /CW and KDF-TV. She joined the KRIS TV team in Corpus Christi in May 2001.
 
Flores-Herrera began her career in news in July 1997 while attending Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. She began as an editor for Corpus Christi's CBS affiliate KZTV-10 in Corpus Christi. After graduating from college in May 2001, she was hired as a producer by the NBC affilitate in Corpus Christi KRIS 6 News. In October 2002, She helped produce several newscasts covering a tornado that tore through Corpus Christi destroying portions of Del Mar College-West. The massive tornado not only left the city in shambles but it also killied a Del Mar College professor. In July 2010, Flores was promoted as an Assignments Editor/. A few months later, when KRIS TV merged with the CBS affiliate KZTV in Corpus Christi, Flores was named a Content Manager. Her duties include overseeing reporters and photographers, finding and vetting stories for the newscasts and helping the KRIS TV web and social media teams. During her time at KRIS 6 News, Flores-Herrera has helped investigate several major news stories that have affected Corpus Christians including Food Stamp Fraud in Nueces County, the reselling of government-issued baby formula at local stores, the numerous water boil notices issued in the city, and the downfall of Corpus Christi Mayor Dan McQueen who resigned after KRIS 6 News uncovered the discrepancies in his resume. She has also helped cover stories that have made international headlines including the story of the conjoined sisters who underwent an 18-hour long separation surgery at Driscoll Children's Hospital. She's also been instrumental in the coverage of Hurricane Harvey that hit the Coastal Bend on August 25, 2017. Flores helped in coverage that allowed Coastal Bend residents prepare for the storm. She also helped produce wall to wall coverage of the massive storm as it made its way along the Coastal Bend. She continues to help in stories as the Coastal Bend slowly gets back on its feet. In 2020, Herrera was promoted to the station’s Assistant News Director.
 
Her work on stories have earned KRIS TV several Texas Associated Press Broadcasters awards, including the 2016 "Best Television Newscast" Division IV. She is also the recipient of the Texas Bar Association’s “2018 Texas Gavel Award”.