The federal government is formally implementing President Trump’s directive to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali.

Trump's decision is being met with resistance, as many Alaska lawmakers, including its two Republican Senators, have voiced ...

In 2015, the name of the peak was changed during the Obama administration to reflect the traditions of Alaska Natives and ...

Trump also renamed Denali, North America’s tallest peak, as Mount McKinley, despite objections from Alaska’s senators.

The tallest mountain in the United States has been officially reverted to Mount McKinley, the U.S. Department of the Interior ...

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

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the name changes as part of a flurry of executive actions hours after taking office on ...

However, Trump's order only applies to the U.S. government's official position. Though headquartered in the U.S., ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

The federal government is following through on President Trump’s pledge to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. It is also working to restore the name Mount McKinley to America’s tallest ...

The department said the U.S. Board on Geographic Names is working to update the “official federal nomenclature in the ...