Nunapitchuk News

Eric Pederson, site administrator at Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat, a K-12 school in Quinhagak, has been offered and has verbally accepted the position of principal at Paul Banks Elementary School, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District announced Wednesday.

A Cessna 172 lost engine power while flying at about 1,500 feet Sunday night. With three passengers -- including a mother and young daughter on board -- the pilot was able to safely land the plane on the glare ice of a nearby lake.

A man living in Nunapitchuk was so sick of people stealing heating oil, he put a bear trap next to his tank.

A Nunapitchuk snowmachiner was missing in blizzard conditions Thursday after becoming separated from another snowmachiner near Nightmute early Wednesday morning, according to Alaska State Troopers.

A Tununak man headed to the village on a snowmachine Saturday was found dead Sunday by searchers, according to Alaska State Troopers.