King and many others who live in the mountain’s shadow say most Alaskans will never stop calling the peak Denali, its Alaska ...

CANTON ‒ Local Republican officials approve of President Donald Trump's order changing the name of North America's tallest mountain in Alaska back to Mount McKinley, in honor of Canton's ...

very patriotic Athabaskan people gave the mountain thousands of years ago — Denali.” Sullivan, Murkowski and U.S. GOP Rep. Nick Begich watched Trump’s second inauguration live from inside ...

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Murkowski and fellow Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) weren’t happy with Trump’s order to rename Denali, the tallest mountain in their home state — and North America — to Mount McKinley.

Many Alaskans continued to use "Denali" in daily life, and Alaska Republicans never gave up on the cause. Soon after Regula's retirement in 2009, GOP senator Lisa Murkowski began pushing again, and ...

Centuries ago, Alaska's native Koyukon people settled on the name "Denali" for the tallest mountain in North America. Then, in 1896, a random European-American gold prospector decided to name it ...