The president wants to honor a predecessor, William McKinley, by returning his name to North America’s highest peak. The state’s senators prefer the Native name.

The tallest peak in North America has been named Denali since 2015 when its name was officially changed under former President Barack Obama.

Alaska's top lawmakers oppose Trump's plan to rename Denali back to Mount McKinley, advocating for the name that honors the region's Indigenous heritage.

President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak — and North America’s tallest at over 20,000 feet — Denali, would be changed back to Mount McKinley. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president on Monday,

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump vowed to change the name of Denali in Alaska back to Mount McKinley.

The 47th president is wading back into a century-long dispute over the name we give to North America’s tallest mountain

The next Interior secretary will also have 30 days to rename the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America, President Donald Trump ordered Monday.

Trump has nominated Republican North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to the Department of Interior. Trump said Jan. 7 at his Mar-a-Lago club that he wanted to make the change because of a trade imbalance with Mexico,

As part of a torrent of decisions he issued hours after taking office, President Donald Trump declared that the name of America’s tallest mountain be changed from Denali to Mount McKinley, and that the Gulf of Mexico be renamed “The Gulf of America.”

Trump’s territorial assertions, in line with his “America First” worldview, sparked a round of rethinking by mapmakers and teachers, snark on social media and sarcasm by at least one other world

President Donald Trump signed numerous executive orders on his first day in office on Monday—one of the executive orders was to rename Mt. Denali and the Gulf of Mexico.