The president wants to honor a predecessor, William McKinley, by returning his name to North America’s highest peak. The state’s senators prefer the Native name.

In 2015, the name of the peak was changed during the Obama administration to reflect the traditions of Alaska Natives and ...

Trump's decision is being met with resistance, as many Alaska lawmakers, including its two Republican Senators, have voiced opposition to the change.

President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak — and North America’s tallest at over 20,000 feet — Denali ...

The Obama-era change followed decades of requests from Native Alaskan leaders for the mountain’s native name ‘Denali’, a Koyukon Athabaskan word meaning "the tall one," "the high one" or "the great ...

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

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Wednesday that he would seek out a conversation with President Donald Trump about his decision to rename Denali, the tallest mountain in the U.S. Trump ordered on Monday ...

President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders — including one to change the official name of North America's tallest mountain.

Ahead of his inauguration on Monday, it was revealed that Trump would sign an order to rename Denali as Mount McKinley (and rename the Gulf of Mexico ). Why does renaming an Alaskan peak rise to the ...

As part of a torrent of decisions he issued hours after taking office, President Donald Trump declared that the name of ...

President Donald Trump says he’s changing the official name of Alaska’s — and North America’s — tallest peak from Denali back ...

Trump, who took office for a second time Monday, said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, ...