During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump vowed to change the name of Denali in Alaska back to Mount McKinley. "A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has suggested ...

A resolution was passed Friday by the Alaska Legislature urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America's tallest peak as Mount Denali. AP The Alaska ...

President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to rename North America's tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley — reviving an idea he floated years ago that at that time saw strong pushback ...

By Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington President Donald J. Trump’s plan to return Denali, the Alaska Native name for North America’s tallest peak, to its earlier name, Mount McKinley ...

President Donald Trump on Monday issued an executive order seeking to rename the Gulf of Mexico and change the name of North America’s tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, back to Mount McKinley.

Ahead of his inauguration on Monday, it was revealed that Trump would sign an order to rename Denali as Mount McKinley (and rename the Gulf of Mexico). Why does renaming an Alaskan peak rise to ...

"Because the mountain was named 10,000 years ago by the Native people, the Athabascans in the area, and it is called Denali, which means the great one," she said. "So I would just suggest to ...

President-elect Trump will sign executive orders renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali on his first day in office, incoming White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Monday.

At 20,310 feet tall, Denali is visible for hundreds of miles around. For thousands of years, it has been called not just Denali but a variety of names by Alaska Native people living around the ...

Centuries ago, Alaska's native Koyukon people settled on the name "Denali" for the tallest mountain in North America. Then, in 1896, a random European-American gold prospector decided to name it ...