President Donald Trump's executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Denali, the tallest peak in the country, has resulted in lots of discussion. While for some, such renaming might seem less important than the big problems the country faces,

Conrad Anker, Jon Krakauer, Melissa Arnot Reid, and other climbers and guides react to President Trump’s renaming of Alaska’s Denali

Stark County GOP officials enthusiastically back President Donald Trump changing the name of North America's tallest mountain back to Mount McKinley.

"We’ve been calling it Denali since I moved up here,” said Alaskan conservative talk radio host Dave Stieren in 2015. "If folks in Ohio are really intent on naming Alaska places, maybe they ...

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be renamed Mount McKinley.

The Tanana Chiefs Conference, a consortium of Athabascan tribes in Interior Alaska, spent years advocating for the peak to be recognized as Denali. McKinley, a Republican native of Ohio ...

“Denali respects the Indigenous people that have ... has the authority to change federal geographical names within the country. In Ohio, Trump’s move drew praise. “I was really excited ...

McKinley, a Republican native of Ohio who was the 25th president, was assassinated early in his second term in 1901 in Buffalo, New York. Denali is an Athabascan word meaning “the high one” or ...

Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The process in each state is different.

After statehood, people in Alaska worked to get the name changed to Denali, but ran into a major barrier: Ohio — the home of former President McKinley. In 1975, the state moved to change the ...

The mountain, which stretches more than 20,000 feet high, has been informally known as Denali for decades and, in 1975, Alaskans began to push for a formal name change. Lawmakers from Ohio ...