Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Wednesday that he would seek out a conversation with President Donald Trump about his decision to rename Denali, the tallest mountain in the U.S. Trump ordered on Monday to change the name of the peak to Mount McKinley.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy instructed the state to raise both the Alaska and U.S. flags to full staff on inauguration day Monday — despite being within 30 days of the death of former President Jimmy Carter.

Dunleavy offered no opinion on Trump's decision to rename Denali as Mount McKinley, saying he wanted to speak with the president before sharing his own view.

JUNEAU — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Wednesday that he would seek out a conversation with President Donald Trump about his decision to rename Denali, the tallest mountain in the U.S. Trump ordered on Monday to change the name of the peak to Mount McKinley.

Executive orders will enable more drilling, mining and other resource development, reversing Biden-era environmental restrictions, governor says

Trump reversed protections for Alaskan wilderness, opening up the state to more oil and gas development and logging on federal lands.

The Alaska House voted Monday to adopt a resolution urging President Donald Trump to reconsider his executive order renaming the tallest peak in North America. The bipartisan House majority sought to quickly move a measure that would signal to the Trump administration that Alaskans opposed his idea of changing the name of the mountain from Denali back to Mount McKinley,

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King and many others who live in the mountain’s shadow say most Alaskans will never stop calling the peak Denali, its Alaska Native name, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that the name revert to Mount McKinley -- an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and never set foot in Alaska.

Republicans in the Alaska House tried Monday to change a resolution objecting to the renaming of Denali to Mount McKinley into a lengthy list of lavish praise for President Donald Trump, who issued the executive order making the change on his first day back in office a week ago,

Alaska House members passed a resolution Monday urging President Trump not to rename Mount Denali to Mount Mckinley.  Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office that undid a 2015

The Alaska House of Representatives took up a resolution Monday petitioning the federal government to maintain the name of the nation’s highest mountain as Denali. The resolution passed the House 28-10 Monday.