Bear Paulsen, Claire Porter, Dashwa Paulsen and Dan Cooke moments after returning to Kotzebue from more than three weeks on the Noatak River. (Wesley Early / KOTZ) Last month, Kotzebue had its wettest ...

DULUTH — Laura Arneson and four friends reached the Arctic Ocean after canoeing 400 miles down Alaska’s Noatak River last July. From the river mouth, their destination, the town of Kotzebue, was just ...

Everyone should spend a week paddling in a canoe, if not every year, at least once in their life. There’s no better way to get to know someone than being stuck in the same boat for days on end, and it ...

This is the third in a four-part series about kayaking the Noatak River in the Arctic Circle. The river, which anchors the largest undeveloped watershed in North America, flows from its headwaters at ...