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On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell signed an order officially changing the name of the 20,310-foot (6,190-meter) peak in Alaska from Mount McKinley to Denali.
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 ...
A decades-long battle between Alaska and Oh. Even at the time, not everyone agreed with calling the peak McKinley. Charles Sheldon, a hunter and naturalist who had spent much time in the area, had ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — 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) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race operates his ...
Most Alaskans will never stop calling the peak Denali, its Alaska Native name, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that the name revert to Mount McKinley — an identifier inspired ...
The televised flight map on Air Force One still called it Mount McKinley, but President Barack Obama was all about capturing the historic moment that Denali - now the name of North America's ...
Most Alaskans I know applauded the recent announcement that Mount McKinley will heretofore be identified as Denali on official maps. As a symbolic gesture, a nod to Native Americans who gave the ...
Alaska’s outdated maps make flying a peril, but a high-tech fix is slowly gaining ground. ... a narrow valley winding through 8,000-foot peaks southwest of Mount McKinley.
DENALI BOROUGH, Alaska — Chris Noel is the mayor of Denali Borough and lives in the forested neighborhood of McKinley Village, which sometimes shows up as Denali Park on online maps. He’s very ...
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 ...
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 ...