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 ...

LANSING, MI - Pure Michigan has produced a fun interactive graphic boasting the many "best of" lists ranking our cities. It points out that Money magazine ranked Traverse City as one of the best ...

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 ...

Yeah, we get it. It's Michigan weather, this is the Upper Peninsula and this certainly isn't the first time this has happened. But still. Frost? In August?! Is summer really on its way out already?!?!

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan got a nod from the wordsmiths at Merriam-Webster today. In its daily Word of the Day post, the historic dictionary and thesaurus publisher named “Yooper” as the word 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 ...

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 ...