GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan of Alaska push proposal to rename Mount McKinley, Denali, after President Donald ...

America has always stripped the land of its original, Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications.

In 2015, under former President Obama, the Department of the Interior officially changed the mountain’s name from Mount McKinley to Denali, 40 years after Alaska made the same name change.

Then a prospector in Alaska who admired president-elect William McKinley and his support for the gold standard called it Mount McKinley in a newspaper article in 1897. The name took, and the ...

Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators have introduced legislation seeking to designate North America’s tallest peak as Denali — ...

During Trump’s first term, in 2017, the senators pushed back when Trump brought up the idea of having the peak’s name revert to Mount McKinley. Earlier this month, the Alaska Legislature ...

hailed from Ohio and never visited Alaska, but a prospector dubbed the peak "Mount McKinley" in 1896 — the year McKinley went on to be elected president. The name was formally recognized by the ...

Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced a bill Thursday that, if passed, would overturn President Donald Trump’s executive order that reverted the Denali name back to Mount McKinley. “In Alaska ...