U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the name changes as part of a flurry of executive actions hours after taking office on ...

Innisfree McKinnon is an associate professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. McKinnon's focus is how ...

A Wisconsin-based geographer writes in a commentary that in the U.S., place names are standardized by the U.S. Board on ...

The Associated Press issued an updated style guidance in response to President Donald Trump's inauguration day executive ...

The department said the U.S. Board on Geographic Names is working to update the “official federal nomenclature in the ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

The Associated Press said in updated guidance that it will use President Trump’s name change for Denali but not the Gulf of ...

Conrad Anker, Jon Krakauer, Melissa Arnot Reid, and other climbers and guides react to President Trump’s renaming of Alaska’s ...

Documents on DEI have been removed from websites at agencies including the Office of Personnel Management, State Department ...

In a statement explaining its decision, the AP said Trump has the authority to change the mountain’s name, but the gulf is a global name ...

What’s in a name change, after all? The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will be critical to ...