Google announced on Monday that its online mapping platform, Google Maps, will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America for users in the US. Additionally, Google Maps will change the name of North America’s tallest peak,

Google Maps said it would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System.

"As directed by the President, the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America," the Interior Department stated in a statement last week. Google responded by noting that the change complies with its longstanding policy of aligning map labeling with updates in official government databases.

BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ONGOING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... .A coastal low moving across the northern Gulf of Mexico is producing periods of visibility reducing heavy snow a

The cold temperatures are coming from a not uncommon expansion in the Polar Vortex, which are counter-clockwise rotating air currents that typically hang over the Arctic.

Joshua Wilson walks his dogs Caymus and Moose Tuesday, January 21, 2025, on Mall Street in Lafayette, La. For the first time ever, Lake Charles and much of Acadiana are under a blizzard warning as snow blankets the area Tuesday morning.

President Donald Trump has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in ... The five U.S. states on its coast are Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Texas. Mexican states border ...

Moisture from the Gulf of Mexico was combining with a low-pressure system and chilly air to drop significant amounts of snow in some spots. That included 10.5 inches near Lafayette, Louisiana by ...

The latest on the once-in-a-generation winter system off of the Gulf of Mexico from the southernmost Blizzard Warning ever issued to near-record snowfall.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday shortly after his inauguration calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed ... the body of water along the Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi ...

New Orleans saw 8 inches of snow, breaking the previous record of 2.7 inches by a long shot, with Chalmette, Louisiana seeing 11.5 inches and Lafayette and Rayne seeing 10.5 inches. The Acadiana region of Louisiana saw temperatures drop as low as 2 degrees F, the lowest ever recorded there since records began in 1893.

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday the country will send Google a letter asking about the technology giant’s decision to soon change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of