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 ...

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 ...

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The U.S. Coast Guard started using the term “Gulf of America” to refer to the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, one day after ...

Part of a legal description of a boundary line of Dixie County, for instance, says it goes "southerly down the thread of the ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday shortly after his inauguration calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America and Denali, the tallest peak in the United ...

As part of a torrent of decisions he issued hours after taking office, President Donald Trump declared that the name of ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already embraced the change. He cited the new name in an executive order earlier this week ...

For years, as disputes over names on the map riled up nationalist passions in several parts of the world, US policymakers ...

Official records are incomplete, but unofficial reports indicate Winter Storm Enzo brought epic amounts of snow across the Gulf Coast.

Meteorologists were left speechless Tuesday as record amounts of snow fell along the Gulf Coast. Here’s why it was so snowy.