News from the HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory

Abstract:  The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory, installed at an altitude of 4100 m above sea level in the state of Puebla, Mexico, has been surveying the northern sky at TeV energies since 2013 while still in construction. In this talk I will provide an overview of the detection technique, and the instrumental characteristics of the observatory. I will then review selected recent results from the survey of the galactic plane, and from the search for extragalactic transients. To close I will briefly present some of the HAWC outreach projects currently ongoing.