The vote came a week after Trump on his first day in office signed an executive order calling for the name to revert to Mount ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the ...

Gulf of Where? In the same name-swapping order, designed to take effect by mid-February, Trump declared that the Gulf of ...

Google Maps addressed what would happen to those landmarks on their systems. "We have a longstanding practice of applying ...

The Alaska House voted 28-10 to adopt a resolution signaling their opposition to changing the name of North America’s tallest ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum joked that if Trump went ahead with the renaming, her country would rename North America ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

The tallest peak in North America has been named Denali since 2015 when its name was officially changed under former ...

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 ... The Alaskan ...

Teshekpuk Caribou Herd animals graze in June of 2014 in the northeastern part of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. (Photo by Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management) The Biden administration on ...

(Adma Nicely/Alaska Public Media) The National Weather Service has changed the criteria for extreme cold weather advisories. NWS Alaska meteorologist Tim Markle said the warnings are designed to ...