Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, the sole possessor of bureau assignment powers on City Council, said Portland doesn't have a governance system where the mayor is in a position to hold a police ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler is asking Oregon Governor-elect Tina Kotek and the state legislature to help address what he sees as the city's biggest crises during the upcoming ...

Wheeler County, in north-central Oregon, is the kind of place people conjure up when they think of the American West. Ranchers work the land and drive the economy in the rim-rocked hills and canyons.

Kulongoski said the 47-year-old Wheeler "bring the perfect balance of expertise" as both the head of Oregon's largest county and as a former executive in the financial industry. He comes from a ...

To Portland activists sometimes given to thinking of the mayor as a law-and-order tyrant, Wheeler might seem out of place on a list with two ultra-left political candidates from New York City. To a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler proposed allocating a $27 million “down payment” to build six designated camping sites during Thursday’s City Council Fall Budget Meeting work ...

Ted Wheeler, 50, became Oregon state treasurer in 2010, when the state budget was still reeling from the economic downturn. A sixth-generation Oregonian, Wheeler worked in financial services before ...

Mayoral hopeful Ted Wheeler has secured three endorsements from mayors of Portland past -- including, most notably, Vera Katz, a former supporter of Charlie Hales. Hales won election in 2012 while ...

Data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalization data is a daily average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with Wheeler County, an area which ...

And then there were three. Wheeler County recorded its first positive case of COVID-19 nearly seven months after the start of emergency measures related to the pandemic started in late March. Now only ...