Sault Ste. Marie
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Every New Year’s Day, a U.P. University Tells the World Which Words to Stop Using. It Started as a Party Joke in 1975.
The LSSU Banished Words List has run every January 1 since 1976.…
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Nearly 90% of the Cargo at the Soo Locks Fits Through Exactly One Gate. Homeland Security Calls It America’s Achilles Heel.
Lake Superior sits 21 feet above the rest of the Great Lakes,…
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A Whiskey Smuggler Got Caught in the U.P. After the Crew Drank Too Much of Their Own Cargo
During Prohibition, whiskey poured across the U.P.’s Canadian border, sometimes with the…
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What Public Records Show About Data Centers in the U.P.
One early InvestUP inquiry, a remanded Dafter lawsuit, local moratorium records, Michigan…
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A Stolen Car, a Knife, and a Dollar General: Inside a Wild Eastern U.P. Arrest
It started with a stolen car in Green Bay and ended with…
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The Soo Locks Are Among the Busiest in the World, and You Can Watch Giant Freighters for Free
Right in downtown Sault Ste. Marie, you can stand a few feet…
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A Yooper Buys a Scratch-Off Before Every Road Trip. This Time It Won Him $2 Million.
He grabbed the ticket in Sault Ste. Marie on his way home,…
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A Florida Man Torched Four State Police Cruisers in the U.P., Then Shot at the Troopers Who Came for Him.
A Chippewa County judge called it a premeditated, ambush-style attack built to…
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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
Updated July 13, 2026: The June 4 public celebration described below has…
