Wheeler County News

After the Monday evening Biggest Loser class, because of our brake problem, we drove at about 2 MPH to the Wheeler County fairgrounds RV Park.

On Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Oregon State Police Troopers in cooperation with the Wheeler County Sheriff's Office served three search warrants in the Mitchell area in south Wheeler County regarding numerous horses and mules that were the subject of an animal neglect investigation.

FOSSIL, Ore. - State Police and Wheeler County sheriff's deputies armed with three search warrants seized 30 horses and two mules that had been subjects of a monthlong animal neglect investigation.

Until he died at 85 and received a tribute from President Barack Obama, Jim Norene was better known in isolated Heppner as "Doc," the only veterinarian for miles.

On a recent road trip to the sleepy berg of Mitchell, 82 miles from Bend, my husband and I stepped into a world that would make David Lynch jealous.

Rural counties across Oregon are looking for new ways to navigate the state's changing economy.

Wind-powered generators dominate the landscape on the route from Portland to Wheeler County.

The remote Oregon town of Fossil has drawn some network television attention for its efforts to shed a little weight.

So many residents of tiny Fossil in central Oregon have joined a "Biggest Loser" diet program -- named for the hit TV show -- that sneaking a milkshake or piece of pie isn't so easy anymore.

He was a boyish 40-year-old who was arrested July 4 after spinning a car around and around in a cemetery, then leading police on a high-speed chase.

In Oregon's small county jails, prisoners suffering from mental illness come in all shapes and sizes.