The Mountain Press media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Mountain Press as leaning right. We have seen it on 81 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Mountain Press biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Mountain Press as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Mountain Press left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Mountain Press as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is The Mountain Press reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Mountain Press are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Mountain Press has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Mountain Press’s own report linked underneath.
Los Angeles voters are deciding between incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and challenger Nithya Raman. Key issues include public safety and homelessness, with differing approaches from both candidates. The election outcome has implications for the city's hosting of the 2028 Olympic Games.
The Mountain Press reported it asLos Angeles mayoral race still undecided (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
Scientists have detected evidence of volcanism on Mars, with some suggesting an inactive magma chamber may exist beneath the surface. Hydrogen chloride emissions are attributed to hot magma, and the rate of volcanic eruptions has declined significantly over billions of years.
The Mountain Press reported it asMars may not be dead? ‘Smoking gun’ suggests life on Red planet (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
US intelligence budgets reached a record $109 billion in fiscal year 2026. However, this figure is $6.5 billion less than what the Trump administration had requested, marking the largest shortfall in 14 years of available data.
The Mountain Press reported it asIntelligence spending hits record $109B, still short of Trump's ask (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
Mary Peltola and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee have filed a motion to block a Trump administration lawsuit. The federal action seeks to prevent Alaska from certifying its U.S. Senate election results if incumbent Dan Sullivan loses, citing voter confusion.
The Mountain Press reported it asJudge to rule on Alaska U.S. Senate case (opens The Mountain Press 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.
The Mountain Press reported it as9th Circuit dismisses feds' latest effort to regulate California elections (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
President Trump stated that Congressmember Ilhan Omar could face jail time, adding his opinion that she is a dishonest person who "hates our country." The comments follow claims by the Trump administration, made without evidence, that Omar committed immigration fraud.
The Mountain Press reported it asTrump calls on Omar to resign amid federal investigation (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
Federal investigators questioned Sahra Noor, sister of US Rep. Ilhan Omar, as part of an immigration fraud probe. The questioning followed a search of Omar's Washington home on October 12. Omar has denied any wrongdoing.
The Mountain Press reported it asTrump calls on Omar to resign amid federal investigation (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
The Trump administration is providing up to $42 million in federal funding to revive the stalled Constitution Pipeline project. The money, from the Defense Production Act, will support permitting and pre-construction work for the pipeline intended to carry natural gas from Pennsylvania to New York.
The Mountain Press reported it asTrump administration pushes New York pipeline projects to ease energy costs (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin have announced a 10-year framework agreement for the production of at least 850 F-35 fighter jets. Lockheed Martin will invest at least $7 billion in F-35 related projects. The deal requires congressional approval and funding.
The Mountain Press reported it asPentagon announces 10-year F-35 deal without disclosing a price (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
A 17‑year‑old male from McKinney, Texas was arrested by the FBI after federal sources said he planned to obtain a gun and carry out an ISIS‑inspired assassination of U.S. Rep. Keith Self at a public event on 17 October.
The Mountain Press reported it asISIS-inspired attack thwarted: an attempted assassination of TX congressman (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
A proposed California tax on billionaires could generate substantially less revenue than anticipated, according to Stanford economists. The study suggests that wealth migration among billionaires may offset the tax's benefits, potentially leading to a net loss in state income tax revenue.
The Mountain Press reported it asEconomists: Billionaire tax would hurt, not help, California (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to promote women's health, establishing a new division within the National Institutes of Health and a specialized task force. Melania Trump spearheaded the initiative, which observers noted was accompanied by an apparent attempt to avoid a kiss from the President.
The Mountain Press reported it asNIH to create new women's health division per Trump executive order (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging a federal ban on distilling spirits in private homes, a law dating back to 1868. Conflicting lower court rulings have led to the case reaching the high court.
The Mountain Press reported it asU.S. Supreme Court to hear home distilling case (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
A Financial Times/Focaldata survey released October 11 indicates Kamala Harris is the leading potential Democratic candidate for 2028. On the Republican side, JD Vance shows the most support in early polling.
The Mountain Press reported it asPoll: Two years out, Harris remains frontrunner in 2028 presidential primary (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
The USS Abraham Lincoln returned to San Diego on October 8, 2026, after nearly 11 months at sea. The deployment supported operations in the Middle East and Pacific, including actions related to the Iran war, and the crew received a Presidential Unit Citation.
The Mountain Press reported it asUSS Abraham Lincoln in San Diego after long deployment (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
The Democratic National Committee has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging that taxpayer-funded television advertisements promoting the president are illegal government propaganda. The ads have cost more than $12 million.
The Mountain Press reported it asDNC sues Trump over $20M ad campaign funded by taxpayers (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order expanding access to tax-exempt red-dyed diesel for highway use. The move comes as diesel prices reached a record high and ahead of the November midterm elections.
The Mountain Press reported it asTrump order temporarily expands use of dyed diesel nationwide (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
Newly revealed private text messages show Senator Thom Tillis using profanity to express his frustration with President Donald Trump. The messages, which Tillis sent earlier this year, are expected to be included in his upcoming book.
The Mountain Press reported it asTillis’ memoir due out Tuesday laden with profanity, bravado (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
Research from Oxford University suggests animals may have evolved up to 200 million years earlier than fossil evidence currently shows. The study re-examined microfossil deposits and used molecular clock analysis to propose an earlier origin for animal life.
The Mountain Press reported it asAnimals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than thought (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
Global stock exchanges saw increases on Monday while oil prices declined. This trend emerged as concerns about inflation lessened, with investors expecting the US Federal Reserve to hold interest rates steady. Weaker than expected US job creation data contributed to these expectations.
The Mountain Press reported it asU.S. economy adds 29K jobs, unemployment 4.2% in September (opens The Mountain Press in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckleanRightCheck it
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
We hold no ownership record for The Mountain Press.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- themountainpress.com
- Seen publishing on
- themountainpress.com
- Access
- Paywalled
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
- 81
- Reports listed
- 82
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
82 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 20 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and The Mountain Press ran the story anyway.
Across the 81 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than The Mountain Press’s on 2 of them. Overall it filed a median of 27 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 7 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 7 November 2026. Ratings pulled 9 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Mountain Press, 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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