A common sentiment in Alaska is that while President Donald Trump has ordered the name of North America’s tallest peak to be changed from Denali to McKinley, Alaskans will call it what they want.
ANCHORAGE — North America’s tallest peak is a focal point of Jeff King’s life. The four-time winner of the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race operates his kennel and mushing tourism ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — North America’s tallest peak is a focal point of Jeff King’s life. The four-time winner of the 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race operates his ...
The decree undoes the work of former President Barack Obama, who, in 2015 officially changed the name from Mount McKinley to Denali, the peak’s traditional name from the Koyukon Athabascan ...
The mountain’s name officially changed in 1917 to honor President William McKinley. In 2015, the Obama administration changed the mountain’s official name to Denali. President Donald Trump on ...
When President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office to rename North America's tallest peak, known as Denali in Alaska, after President William McKinley ...
CANTON ‒ Local Republican officials approve of President Donald Trump's order changing the name of North America's tallest mountain in Alaska back to Mount McKinley, in honor of Canton's ...
Mount McKinley — despite a debate between some early boosters over whether Denali was a more appropriate name, according to a National Park Service history. After statehood, people in Alaska ...
Trump’s plan to return Denali, the Alaska Native name for North America’s tallest peak, to its earlier name, Mount McKinley, has run into opposition from Alaska lawmakers. Shortly after taking ...
Despite the advocacy of the park's first superintendent, Harry Karstens, for "Denali," as early as 1913, it had been popularly known as Mount McKinley since at least 1901, after President William ...
On Monday President Donald Trump revived that dispute when he changed Denali's name back to Mount McKinley in an executive order Monday. "A short time from now, we will be restoring the name of a ...