Many Alaskans say they’ll never stop calling the mountain Denali. That name respects the Indigenous people who’ve lived in ...

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

President Donald Trump's executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Denali, the tallest peak in the country, ...

Stark County GOP officials enthusiastically back President Donald Trump changing the name of North America's tallest mountain ...

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 ...

Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The ...

After statehood, people in Alaska worked to get the name changed to Denali, but ran into a major barrier: Ohio — the home of former President McKinley. In 1975, the state moved to change the ...

22, 2014. (Bob Hallinen / ADN) After statehood, people in Alaska worked to get the name changed to Denali, but ran into a major barrier: Ohio — the home of former President McKinley. In 1975 ...

The mountain, which stretches more than 20,000 feet high, has been informally known as Denali for decades and, in 1975, Alaskans began to push for a formal name change. Lawmakers from Ohio ...

"Denali" is an Athabascan word meaning "the high ... it over opposition from lawmakers in McKinley's home state of Ohio. The mountain stands at 20,310 feet. Various tribes of Athabascan people ...