While the Gulf of America will be applied to federal references, other nations will not be required to recognize the name.

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 ...

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

Conrad Anker, Jon Krakauer, Melissa Arnot Reid, and other prominent climbers and guides share their thoughts on the president ...

The mountain referred to as Denali by Alaska Natives for centuries was officially named Mount McKinley from 1917 until 2015, ...

Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich the Third had a timid response to Donald Trump’s decision to unilaterally change the ...

President Donald Trump signs an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and Denali to Mount McKinley, ...

The Denali Commission, a federal agency based in Anchorage, is known for funding mundane infrastructure upgrades in rural ...

What’s in a name change, after all? The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will be critical to ...