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.

Denali National Park is officially renaming the mountain Mount McKinley, reversing the 2015 decision to restore the ...

Mount McKinley was officially named for President William McKinley until the Obama administration renamed it Denali, its Alaska Native name, in 2015. Under President Biden, the Department of ...

The federal government’s official name for it until 2015 was Mount McKinley — named after the country’s 25th President William McKinley who was from Ohio and had never visited or had ties to Alaska.

Trump’s executive order opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling and eased the ... of America” and changes Alaskan peak Denali back to Mount McKinley, after the name was ...

Scientists at Mount Spurr in Alaska have been unable to collect vital volcanic data for over a month as the area experiences “elevated” levels of earthquakes — but authorities claim an ...