In one of his first acts back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the peak's labeling from the traditional Koyukon Athabascan name of Denali to Mount McKinley ...

McKinley was assassinated in 1901 (making his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the U.S.) and the nation saw much lower tariffs until Trump was elected to office in 2016.

Topline. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has ...

President Obama will announce Monday that his administration is officially redesignating Alaska’s Mt. McKinley as Denali, the original name for the 20,237-foot-high mountain given by the area ...

— -- President Obama has changed the name of Alaska's Mt. McKinley to Denali, the White House announced Sunday, a day before the president is set to visit the state.

WASHINGTON — President Obama's three-day trip to Alaska this week will literally change the map of the nation's 49th state. Mount McKinley — the 20,237-foot mountain and the tallest in North ...

The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution Friday urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America's tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount McKinley.

The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution Friday urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount ...

President Obama will be in Alaska for three days discussing with Alaska's Native Americans the effects of climate change on tourism, as well as improvements to fishing conservation, reports CBS ...

The mountain was named after McKinley when a prospector walked out of the Alaska wilderness in 1896, and the first news he heard was that the Republican had been nominated for president.

The McKinley name stuck until 2015, when President Barack Obama’s administration changed it to Denali as a symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives on the eve of his Alaska visit to highlight climate ...

Alaska's senior senator has once again introduced legislation to rename Mount McKinley, Denali. ... Ohio is the birthplace of President William McKinley, and for years, ...