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The Yooper definition entered Merriam-Webster in 2014 after a Delta County prosecutor lost a Scrabble challenge and spent a decade mailing proof to a lexicographer. Then the dictionary dropped a letter.
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For the first time in over a century, a mother cougar and two cubs are living in the U.P. — and 2025...
Read storyMichigan didn't choose the U.P. It got stuck with it. Then it got rich. If you've ever wondered why Michigan has the...
Read storyFrom the top of Brockway Mountain, Lake Superior spreads out in front of you in every direction, blue all the way to...
Read storyAt Seney National Wildlife Refuge, trumpeter swans that had all but vanished now raise their young on the quiet pools, and summer...
Read storyThe national Ski Hall of Fame sits in Ishpeming for a reason, this is where the whole sport got organized When you...
Read storyIn the woods near Crystal Falls lives the Humongous Fungus, one of the oldest and largest living things on Earth In the...
Read storyYears before the forty-niners headed west, a rush for copper built the Keweenaw, and the Quincy Mine still towers over it Everybody...
Read storyThey sat hidden on the beaches for a billion years before a Yooper with a flashlight figured them out Walk a Lake...
Read storyMichigan's latest published winter estimate counted a minimum of 762 wolves in the U.P. in 2024., hunting in packs out in the...
Read storyYou've heard "Win one for the Gipper" your whole life. The Gipper was a Yooper You have heard the line a thousand...
Read storyThe biggest waves ever recorded on the Great Lakes rolled right past the U.P. — nearly three stories tall. Press play. Everyone...
Read storyIf you have ever driven Highway 41 between Baraga and L'Anse, you have probably seen him: a 35-foot figure standing on a...
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