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 ...

McKinley, who was later elected president and assassinated in 1901, had no direct connection to Alaska. Despite the official adoption of 'Mount McKinley' in 1917 when the national park was ...

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 ...

The Alaska Lands Act of 1980 would greatly affect Mount McKinley National Park, nearly tripling it in size by adding 2.4 million acres to the park itself, plus an additional 1.3 million acres in ...

Trump has embraced James K. Polk and William McKinley as avatars of his effort to return the United States to a bygone era, historians said.

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.

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 ...

Still, defying Trump left the AP without access to official White House events, and its journalists can no longer join a small group of reporters — known as the “pool” — who cover the president. After ...