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 ...

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

North America’s tallest peak is a focal point of Jeff King’s life. The four-time winner of the 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) ...

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

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

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

The Alaskan mountain, now known as Mount Denali, will revert back to its previous name Mount McKinley, which was changed by ...

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 completed the change to ...

CANTON ‒ Local Republican officials approve of President Donald Trump's order changing the name of North America's tallest mountain in Alaska back to Mount McKinley, in honor of Canton's ...

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 ...