This is a developing story. The name is no longer Denali. The tallest mountain in the United States has been officially ...

The mountain was a big part of the legend and lore of the Athabaskan-speaking people who gave it the name Denali, meaning Tall One. In 1896 gold prospector William Dickey renamed it Mount McKinley ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution Friday urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and ...

Sheldon's only disappointment was that Congress, in creating Mount McKinley National Park, had ignored his repeated pleas to return the mountain to its original name: Denali. In 1939, Park Service ...

Another, Episcopal priest Hudson Stuck, wrote the same year about the journey in a book he titled “The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley).” In it, Stuck lodges “a plea for the restoration to ...

Trump, who took office for a second time Monday, said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.

From 1917 to 2015 and starting again in January 2025, the federal government has officially referred to Denali as Mount McKinley, after President William McKinley. Catherine Garcia has worked as a ...

The Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the Gulf of America, and Denali, the highest mountain in North America, will once again be called Mount McKinley. The name of the mountain has been the subject ...

Alaska's U.S. senators in 2017 vehemently opposed a prior suggestion by Trump that the name Denali revert back to Mount McKinley. Trump revisited the topic during a rally late last year, following ...