The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

In Alaska, he discarded local wishes favoring Denali to honor McKinley, a president elected with aid of late 19th century robber barons. How might Trump bull through the closet of geographic names in ...

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar will be the next chancellor of the Texas A&M University System ... confirmed four of the five names. Regents met all day Monday in Houston ...

Mike Dunleavy, governor of the US state of Alaska, has introduced legislation that would legalize finfish farming in enclosed, inland systems, a move aimed at boosting food security and economic ...

On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” instructing the US Board on Geographic Names (BGN), a federal body ...

A new radar-based volcano monitoring system developed by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and U.S. Geological Survey will expand across the U.S. and beyond. The expansion, funded by NASA ...

Federal Leaders renamed Mount McKinley to officially be Mount Denali in 2015. Trump brought the McKinley name back days after taking office. Tom Hanks ‘storms out’ of SNL 50th anniversary conc ...

The shift follows an official update by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and was reinforced by a proclamation from President Donald Trump, who on Sunday, Feb. 9, declared the date as the ...