ESCANABA, Mich. (WWJ) - It took more than 10 years to make it happen, but a man from Escanaba in the Upper Peninsula has finally convinced the people from Merriam-Webster to include the word "yooper" ...

Opening a package in 2011, an editor at Merriam-Webster slowly realized what it contained — a bribe. What she didn’t know: The briber was a county prosecutor. The parcel contained a keychain, ...

When I was a kid, we’d make the 7-hour drive north to spend Easter with my mom’s family in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. My parents own a cabin about 10 miles inland from Pictured Rocks National ...

ISHPEMING — These hunters are a bunch of dummies. One guy's already nodded off at the card table with a beer bottle still in his hand. His buddy is laid out on the couch in his long johns, taking a ...

SAULT STE. MARIE — Heidi Ritter and her husband moved to Sault Ste. Marie in 2020 and was shocked that she couldn't find a place to buy warm pasties in town, so she started her own pasty company, ...

Yes, you are mispronouncing the word "sauna." No, you shouldn't ask that person why they "talk so weird." There are plenty of things you are saying to Yoopers that you just shouldn't say. There is ...

Yoopers were excited that they made the dictionary. It's too bad people won't learn the right way to pronounce their nickname. As we noted Monday, the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has added ...

MANITOWOC - The Clipper City Chordsmen will present their annual Christmas show, “Da Yooper Who Stole Christmas,” at 7 p.m. Dec. 14 at the Endries Performance Hall on the campus of Holy Family College ...

Michigan was buzzing last week with the news that the word Yooper is going to be included in the new edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary this spring. Michigan was buzzing last week with ...