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

to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs," Trump announced earlier in his inauguration speech. The change ...

McKinley, who was later elected president and assassinated in 1901, had no direct connection to Alaska. Despite the official adoption of 'Mount McKinley' in 1917 when the national park was ...

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.

Renaming a place is always an act of power. People in power have long used place naming to claim control over the identity of the place, bolster their reputations, retaliate against opponents and ...

Further, on Monday Trump signed an executive order restoring McKinley's name to that Alaska mountain known for more than a century as Mount McKinley until it was changed to Denali by President ...

In 1917, the federal government named it Mount McKinley to honor President McKinley but the name was changed to Denali in 2015 by then-President Barack Obama in a nod to Alaska Native tribes.