The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution Friday urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America's tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount McKinley.

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

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The decree undoes the work of former President Barack Obama, who, in 2015 officially changed the name from Mount McKinley to Denali, the peak’s traditional name from the Koyukon Athabascan ...

Subscribe today. On Monday, January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename Alaska’s 20,310-foot Denali, the highest peak in North America. The mountain’s name ...

Trump’s plan to return Denali, the Alaska Native name for North America’s tallest peak, to its earlier name, Mount McKinley, has run into opposition from Alaska lawmakers. Shortly after taking ...

(Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak — and North America’s tallest at over 20,000 feet — Denali, would be changed back to Mount ...

Then-President Obama used his executive power to rename the mountain Denali, which is derived from a Native Alaskan language. In his inaugural address, Trump described former President McKinley as ...

not everyone agreed with calling the peak McKinley. Charles Sheldon, a hunter and naturalist who had spent much time in the area, had strongly campaigned for it to be called Denali, as had ...

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 ...

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.