America has always stripped the land of its original Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications ...

McKinley witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. This is Part 1, the story of McKinley's first winter ascent ...

Then a prospector in Alaska who admired president-elect William McKinley and his support for the gold standard called it Mount McKinley in a newspaper article in 1897. The name took, and the ...

Apparently, I upset some of my Alaska friends when I gave it back its real name. Since my goal is to bring unity to this ...

in Alaska, to Mount McKinley; a change nobody — not even Republicans in Alaska — wanted. Reader support makes our work possible. Donate today to keep our site free. Denali is a Koyukon ...

Following President Donald Trump's move to change the name of the tallest mountain in North America to Mount McKinley, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has once again introduced a measure to ...

In 2015, under former President Obama, the Department of the Interior officially changed the mountain’s name from Mount McKinley to Denali, 40 years after Alaska made the same name change.

The FAA announced on Monday it will change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and Mount Denali to Mount McKinley.

William McKinley, the 25th president, hailed from Ohio and never visited Alaska, but a prospector dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” in 1896 — the year McKinley went on to be elected president.

Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced a bill Thursday that, if passed, would overturn President Donald Trump’s executive order that reverted the Denali name back to Mount McKinley. “In Alaska ...