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 ...

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 ...

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.

President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to rename North America's tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley — reviving an idea he floated years ago that at that time saw strong pushback ...

President Donald Trump says he’s changing the official name of Alaska’s — and North America’s — tallest peak from Denali back to Mount McKinley. It’s the latest chapter in a long ...

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.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be renamed Mount McKinley. He also called for changing the name of the Gulf ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

President Donald J. 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.

"They took his name off Mount McKinley," Trump said in a speech to supporters in Phoenix, according to reporting from Reuters. "He was a great president," Trump said, adding his administration ...