If approved, Beaver Creek would become Tseenjik River and Birch Creek would be the K'iidootinjik River. The Alaska Historical Commission voted 6-1 against renaming these two bodies of water citing ...

FAIRBANKS -- In 1991, Sen. Ted Stevens vowed that one day the U.S. Board on Geographic Names would decide between two names for the highest peak on the continent -- McKinley and Denali. "I can ...

On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell signed an order officially changing the name of the 20,310-foot (6,190-meter) peak in Alaska from Mount McKinley to Denali.

DENALI BOROUGH, Alaska — Chris Noel is the mayor of Denali Borough and lives in the forested neighborhood of McKinley Village, which sometimes shows up as Denali Park on online maps. He’s very ...

In 1912, Belmore Browne nearly became the first person to stand atop North America's tallest peak. And then he got lost into history. Now climber Brian Okonek is bringing his legacy back to life.