Scientists provided an update Thursday on the chances of an eruption of the Mount Spurr volcano in Alaska, a situation being ...

have been in the interior of Alaska for at least 20,000 years. The naming/renaming of Mt. McKinley to Denali and Denali to ...

However, in the late 1800s, a prospector named it Mount McKinley to honor then-presidential candidate William McKinley, who had no connection to Alaska. The name stuck federally in 1917 ...

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.

when the Alaska Legislature asked the U.S. federal government to officially change its name from "Mount McKinley" to "Denali". The mountain had been unofficially named Mount McKinley in 1896 by a ...

Douglas Peebles / Corbis Two hikers view Mt. McKinley from Denali National Park. The park spans six million acres which is larger than all of New Hampshire. Alaska Stock LLC / Alamy A young moose ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba ...