Shakespeare once asked, “What’s in a name? Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?” And in the case of Denali, would a ...

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

President Donald Trump's executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Denali, the tallest peak in the country, ...

Denali Denali (21,310 ft.), located in Alaska’s Denali National Park, the highest peak in North America and a member of the ...

Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The ...

After statehood, people in Alaska worked to get the name changed to Denali, but ran into a major barrier: Ohio — the home of former President McKinley. In 1975, the state moved to change the ...

22, 2014. (Bob Hallinen / ADN) After statehood, people in Alaska worked to get the name changed to Denali, but ran into a major barrier: Ohio — the home of former President McKinley. In 1975 ...

The mountain, which stretches more than 20,000 feet high, has been informally known as Denali for decades and, in 1975, Alaskans began to push for a formal name change. Lawmakers from Ohio ...

That was the first year the state of Alaska petitioned to use the local name Denali instead of McKinley. Lawmakers from Ohio, McKinley’s home state, pushed back. But how do the people whose ...