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 ...

A Quinnesec woman has put a fun twist to a classic Christmas carol in her debut children’s book, “The Twelve Days of 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, ...

Yoopers, rejoice: You are getting the recognition you deserve from the dictionary itself. Merriam-Webster Dictionary's word of the day today is "Yooper," which it defines as "a native or resident of ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Da “Yoopers” up dere in da U.P., Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, have hit it big with inclusion of their nickname in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and the company’s free online ...

If you've heard the word ‘yooper', you're probably from Michigan or have spent a lot of time there. Yooper is a local term used to describe people from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. But it's also ...

Yooper, the moniker for native or longtime residents of the Lake Superior region, has been added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. (Courtesy Upper Peninsula Now) Da "Yoopers" up dere in da U ...

Jon Russell has broadcast high school football games at dozens of different venues in Michigan, big and small. The longtime Muskegon-area radio play-by-play guy admittedly underestimated the ...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:56:37 GMT — A Yooper Chook is a hat with "hidden heat" and they are handcrafted in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Cynthia Dorie is the owner of Yooper Chook. "I have six brothers and ...

Austin Plowers. Yooper Scooper. Clearopathra. Those are just some of the names bestowed upon the more than 300 snowplows that will patrol Michigan’s roadways this winter. The state Department of ...