According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the mountain was named for McKinley in 1896 by William Andrews Dickey, a prospector ...

Shakespeare once asked, “What’s in a name? Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?” And in the case of Denali, would a ...

Among the roughly 200 executive orders President Donald Trump is expected to sign during his first day in office is a ...

The move is likely to face some pushback in Alaska, where the Alaska Native name has long been favored for the continent’s ...

the U.S. Department of the Interior officially restored the name ‘Denali’ in 2015 under Secretary Sally Jewell and President Barack Obama’s administration. The decision was widely celebrated ...

The McKinley name stuck until 2015, when President Barack Obama’s administration changed it to Denali as a symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives on the eve of his Alaska visit to highlight climate ...

President Donald Trump says he plans to rename North America’s tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley ...

Donald Trump will order the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Mount Denali in his first hours as the 47th president ...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to restore the name of North America's highest peak to Mount McKinley ...

“Denali” is the mountain’s preferred name for Alaska Natives. Former President Barack Obama ordered it changed in 2015 from its previous name "McKinley," which was a tribute to President ...

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump suggested he wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest mountain — Alaska’s Denali — to Mount McKinley. Here's why: ...

Alaska's U.S. senators in 2017 vehemently opposed a prior suggestion by Trump that the name Denali be changed back to Mount McKinley. In 2015, then-President Barack Obama changed the name to ...