GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan of Alaska push proposal to rename Mount McKinley, Denali, after President Donald ...

The search giant officially updated its maps and search engine Saturday reverting Denali back to its original name — Mount McKinley ... for William McKinley in 1896, the year before he became ...

Stripping an Indigenous place name and imposing a new one on maps, atlases, and our phones’ navigational systems is an act of ...

In 2015, under former President Obama, the Department of the Interior officially changed the mountain’s name from Mount McKinley to Denali, 40 years after Alaska made the same name change.

Never mind President Donald Trump’s announcement just hours after his inauguration that he was restoring the behemoth peak’s previous title of Mount McKinley, in honor of a turn-of-the-century ...

But as of Saturday Google Maps and its search engine still directed users to Denali when searching for Mount McKinley ... named for William McKinley in 1896, the year before he became president.

William McKinley, the 25th president, hailed from Ohio and never visited Alaska, but a prospector dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” in 1896 — the year McKinley went on to be elected president.