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

The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution Friday urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of ...

During his inauguration speech, Donald Trump hailed President William McKinley and announced plans to restore the name of North America’s tallest peak from Denali to Mount McKinley. This decision ...

Denali was renamed in 2015 by former President Barack Obama’s Department of the Interior, honoring the peak’s name in Native American cultures within Alaska and at the request of numerous Alaskan ...

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 ...

Finally, in 2015, President Barack Obama restored the name to Denali in part to achieve his campaign promise of improving relations between the federal government and Native American tribes ...

President Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and the Alaska mountain Denali to Mount McKinley. What you need to know.

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 ...