The name is no longer Denali. The tallest mountain in the United States has been officially reverted to Mount McKinley, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced in a press release Friday.

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 – ...

In an executive order signed on his first day back in office on Jan. 20, the president ordered the Secretary of the Interior ... United States. Alaska's two senators oppose the change, saying ...

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 ...

While for some, such renaming might seem less important than the big problems the country faces, there is a formal process in the United States ... secretary of the Interior Department.