JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska House on Monday voted to urge President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America's tallest peak as Denali. The vote came a week after Trump, ...

That was the first year the state of Alaska petitioned to use the local name Denali instead of McKinley. Lawmakers from Ohio, McKinley’s home state, pushed back. But how do the people whose ...

The summit of Denali extends above the clouds in a view from a jet on January 30, 2023. (Marc Lester / ADN) JUNEAU — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Wednesday that he would seek out a ...

Alaska Native leaders, as well as state politicians, object that the order undoes years of work with the federal government to establish Denali as the rightful name. "Located on the traditional ...

The order kicked off the latest chapter in a long struggle over what Alaska’s most prominent peak should be called — and why. At 20,310 feet tall, Denali is visible for hundreds of miles around.

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 McKinley. Trump was sworn in as the 47th ...

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) ...

“The mountain was named 10,000 years ago by the native people, the Athabascans in the area, and it is called Denali, which means 'the great one',” Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski told CB ...

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 ...

2, 2015, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, file) Follow live updates on President Donald Trump’s return to Washington JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — President Donald Trump ...

Centuries ago, Alaska's native Koyukon people settled on the name "Denali" for the tallest mountain in North America. Then, in 1896, a random European-American gold prospector decided to name it ...