Yakama Nation lamprey harvest/salvage on Willamette/Wa'lúmt this morning for @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Oregon Republican gubernatorial hopeful and former NBA player Chris Dudley concedes primary race to state Sen. Christine Drazan, a Canby Republican. Said he called Drazan to offer his support and is “still bullish, still positive on our future as a state.” @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Dudley watches results come in showing opponents Drazan and Diehl ahead. “It's 2nd quarter and you're down, so you're not happy about being down. But it’s only the 2nd quarter. So we'll see,” he said. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

No escaping the basketball puns for former NBA player and Oregon Republican gubernatorial hopeful Chris Dudley at his Portland watch party for tonight’s primary. I’ll be here covering for @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Portland Police Bureau have arrived in tactical gear to remove protestors from the front of the ICE building, warning of targeted arrests for attempts to breach the gate. Rare to see local officers get this involved in crowd management at the federal building.

Have not seen level of restraint from DHS officers as I’ve seen at Portland ICE facility so far tonight. Protestors shook open gate (did not cross threshold into building) and about a dozen officers are just standing, holding a line. No flash grenades, no gas, no one on the roof with pellet guns.

Three man band pops up at Portland ICE facility protest, which has grown to a couple hundred @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

About 100 to 150 protestors gathered at Portland ICE facility south of downtown, not affiliated with No Kings March. Among them is Jack Dickinson, “the Portland chicken,” lead plaintiff in a suit against DHS over excessive force against protestors @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Update: Reading estimates of up to 30k protestors at Portland No Kings today. Still shy of the 40k estimated in October. Another protest later this afternoon will end at the Portland ICE facility. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

The No Kings march through Portland begins on a new route over the Willamette River. Well over ten thousand here but a smaller crowd than earlier No Kings protests. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

About a dozen out here in Portland frog brigade protesting with “tactical frivolity,” frog Matthew Gottula said: “to puncture the idea that we're a war torn city. We're not. We are a lovely, wonderful people. We care about our neighbors” @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Thousands out in Portland at Willamette Riverfront for no kings march. Many signs and speakers, besides protesting Trump, focus on ire at ICE. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Two offices in Oregon’s Capitol. One for a lobbyists association. One for journalists who make up the Oregon Capitol Press Corps. Guess which has more members? If the obvious answer bothers you, it’s as good a time as any to donate to @oregoncapitalchronicle.com oregoncapitalchronicle.com/donate/

Well over 1,000 students walked out and Marched at the Oregon state capitol in Salem today too.

This story is so notable for all the Oregon Republicans who dodged simple questions from reporters at the Capitol when they could not simply ignore our emails. Fabulous and illuminating reporting from @shaanthx.bsky.social oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/16/a...

About two dozen protestors and a bunch of media outside arraignment for independent journalist Don Lemon and civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong at federal court in St Paul, MN over Jan. protest at Cities Church against Pastor David Eastwood, local ICE field director. @minnesotareformer.com

A couple hundred people have returned to the ICE building to protest. More Portland Police officers and firefighters have shown up. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Just arrived to a march against ICE in Portland, OR, blocks from the ICE processing facility that has been the site of ongoing protests. Members of 30 unions organized the march, and there are well over 1,000 people here at Elizabeth Carothers Park @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Retired doctor Jennifer Black with the group Doctors Defending Democracy said members of the group who work for Legacy have shared concerns about ICE officers being allowed access to patients without a lawyer present and violating patient privacy laws.

100 or so people at a protest starting outside Legacy Emmanuel Hospital on N. Vancouver in northeast Portland. Event organized by PDXCD Portland Contra las Deportaciones to protest the hospital being “the go-to hospital to bring detainees injured during their arrests due to ICE violence.”

Crowd is also here to protest US military action in Venezuela. Portland City Councilor Angelita Morillo speaks to the crowd.

About 200 people are at the Willamette River waterfront in downtown Portland to protest ICE at an event organized by the group Indivisible. @jmshumway.bsky.social and I will follow events in Portland and in Oregon’s capital Salem today for @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Here’s how we do it (including putting them in a separate section on our homepage labeled “COMMENTARY” so readers never confuse them for reported articles:

Looks like I’m the first one here at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. District Court House in Portland for day 1 of 3 day trial in State of Oregon et al. v. Trump et al. over Trump’s attempted Guard deployment. (traumatized by being kicked to overflow last time). Follow @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

This is actually something that Judge Graber, the dissenting judge on the 9th Circuit's Monday decision, brings up as worrying:

Feds have repeatedly claimed 115+ federal police (25% of force) had to be deployed to Portland over the summer to quell violence. Oregon lawyers found on discovery this was not true and are asking 9th Circuit to reverse Monday decision because feds lied: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

This is the scene at the Portland ICE facility right now where the Trump admin wants to send hundreds of National Guard troops to protect federal workers and property.

Federal officers pepper ball protestors at Portland ICE facility just now.