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.

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

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

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be ...

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 ...

Alaska's top lawmakers oppose Trump's plan to rename Denali back to Mount McKinley, advocating for the name that honors the region's Indigenous heritage.

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 ...

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

undoing a 2015 decision that had restored the peak’s Alaska Native name, Denali. The decision appears to reflect Mr. Trump’s increasingly public admiration for William McKinley, the 25th ...