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

Alaskans are responding after President Donald Trump changed the name of North America's tallest peak from Denali back to ...

That’s not just McIlmail’s impression. Businesses with the name “Denali” outnumber those named for McKinley 6 to 1 in the state’s business license database. “When I was a young lad I ...

While symbolic in many senses, these name switchups could have complex cultural, international and even logistical implications, experts say. Denying Denali: The McKinley-Denali naming controversy ...

“When that happens, we will update Google Maps in the U.S. quickly to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America,” Google said. “Denali” is the mountain’s preferred name for Alaska Natives. Former ...

But as is often true of settler place names, the origin stories are transitory, specifics easily lost. The neighborhood itself is known as McKinley Village, or, as a few neighbors futilely remind ...

(NEXSTAR) — Among the roughly 200 executive orders President Donald Trump is expected to sign during his first day in office is a declaration to restore the name of the 25th president, William ...

Another gold prospector named William Dickey came up with the name “Mount McKinley,” after the then-president-elect, William McKinley. In an account of his summer in Alaska published in a New ...

The federal government is formally implementing President Trump’s directive to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Denali. The Interior Department issued a press release saying that the “the Gulf of ...

Visitors to Talkeetna take in a view of Denali. President Donald Trump announced the name would be changed back to Mount McKinley during his inaugural address. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) ...

McKinley. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources,” Google said in a post on X. The company said that Maps will ...