Jan. 9—Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy and other state officials are set to travel to the United Arab Emirates in the coming days to discuss investment opportunities in Alaska.

Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it could be a brief experiment anyway.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy hails Trump’s executive orders lifting Arctic oil restrictions, calling it "unbelievably good news" for Alaska’s economy and resource development.

Dunleavy offered no opinion on Trump's decision to rename Denali as Mount McKinley, saying he wanted to speak with the president before sharing his own view.

The president made the name change through one of dozens of executive orders he signed on Monday. Former President Barack Obama’s administration ordered that the mountain be renamed as Denali in 2015.

Alaska’s US senators in 2017 vehemently opposed a prior suggestion by Mr Trump that the name Denali be changed back to Mount McKinley.

Trump signed the executive order, thus reversing the Biden-era decision that restricted oil and gas extraction within the state.

The order Trump signed instructs the Interior Department to update the Geographic Names Information System to reflect the renaming of the Gulf and remove all references to the Gulf of Mexico. It says all federal references to the Gulf of America, including on agency maps, contracts, and other documents and communications shall reflect the renaming.

Mexican president says President Trump can call the gulf whatever he wants but that the world will still call it the Gulf of Mexico.

President Trump said he will sign executive orders to change the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and Mount Denali to Mount McKinley.

A key public-sector union and some Democratic state lawmakers are calling on Gov. Mike Dunleavy to release the results of a million-dollar study on how competitive the state’s salaries are.