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Fifty Years Ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald Vanished Into Lake Superior 17 Miles From Safety. The U.P. Has Never Forgotten.
All 29 of her crew were lost on a stormy November night…
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The Pasty Isn’t Just Lunch in the U.P. It’s a Heritage, a Mining Legacy, and an Argument Waiting to Happen
A Cornish miner’s lunch crossed an ocean, went down into the copper…
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A Walk in the Woods Could Soon Come With a Storybook, One Page at a Time, at This Marquette Township Park
The idea is simple and kind of magical: a children’s picture book…
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A L’Anse Family of Five Got Stranded on the Rocks in the Middle of Keweenaw Bay, and the DNR Brought Them All Home Safe
Their 31-foot sailboat ran up on the rocks halfway across the bay.…
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Five Pilots Are Flying U.P. Kids Over Tahquamenon Falls This Sunday — and It Won’t Cost a Dime
This Sunday, five planes are touching down at the Luce County Airport…
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Extreme Fire Danger Has Taken Hold of the U.P. and Crews Are Already Putting Out Flames
If you have been thinking about burning a brush pile, lighting a…
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A U.P. Family Is Racing to Save the 100-Year-Old Toonerville Trolley Before It’s Scrapped
For nearly a century, the Toonerville Trolley carried families deep into the…
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A U.P. University Has Been Releasing Atlantic Salmon Into the Same River for 40 Years — and Tomorrow They’re Celebrating
It happens every spring. Thousands of young Atlantic salmon, raised by hand…
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People Travel the World to See the Northern Lights. Yoopers Just Step Into the Backyard.
There are places people fly across the planet to see the aurora…
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Three U.P. Teams Just Brought Home State Track & Field Titles — and One Ended a 49-Year Drought
It was a big weekend to be a Yooper. Up in Kingsford,…