Note: This story will be updated as information becomes available. March 20, 2 p.m. - CWU cancels spring commencement CWU will not host an in-person graduation ceremony in spring due to COVID-19.  The...

I had the honor of working alongside Ben at The Observer and in many journalism classes at CWU.  Whether he was pitching a wild story about searching for rattlesnakes in the outskirts of Ellensburg...

Editor's Note: On Nov. 14, this story was updated. In the previous version, a quote was cut off. It was corrected to, "If one party chooses to not be present for the meeting a resolution will be created...

On Nov. 6 The Observer released a story titled, “The Observer stands for a free and unregulated press.”  Today, student journalists and supporters stood outside of Lind, Bouillon and the SURC...

The CWU College of Business’ Economics department will put on an event called the Cannabis Caucus on April 27, which will be the Washington state’s first economic outlook conference dedicated to the...

When you have committed a crime that is no longer a crime, should it still hold you back from job opportunities, education and housing? Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Seattle’s City Attorney Pete Holmes...

To kick off Marijuana Awareness Month, the Wellness Center has brought back Marijuana Mondays. On Feb. 1, Mackenzie Knowlden, a health education intern for the Wellness Center, kicked off this series talking...

**A previous headline for this story, both online and in print, identified California as the Sunshine State. It has since been changed. California became the eighth state to legalize recreational marijuana...

When senior Samantha Pinson looks back at her college rugby career, she says one of her favorite memories was making her first trip to the national championship tournament in May of 2015. “We...

The women’s rugby season is officially over and the general feeling in the team is that it was one of the best they have ever had. Although CWU didn’t win the national championship (they lost...

  Jack Lambert Jawan Stepney goes up for a basket in the Oct. 31 game against Northwest University. CWU shooting guard Jawan Stepney transferred from Cochise College in Arizona in 2015 and...

There’s a reason that University 101 exists, and it isn’t just to torture freshmen. Unless they skipped a grade or two, college students are adults and are expected to act as such. This can come as...

Students who have been at CWU for more than a year should be used to the occasional phone call or e-mail about a recent emergency incident on campus or nearby. This system is called CWU Alert and fortunately...

Voter apathy isn’t something new. In about every U.S. general election, voter turnout never exceeds 70 percent. In some states, it barely passes 50 percent. But even then, it should come as quite...

The Central Transit sales tax was approved on April 26, which will implement two-tenths of 1 percent sales tax that will help fund Central Transit for the next 10 years. Proposition 1 needed a simple...

Central has announced Katherine Frank as the newly appointed Provost for Academic and Student Life. The news comes by way of a press release sent from Central's Academic Affairs office. She will...

It was a warm spring day last year when Zahiah Alkharnda walked down the Walnut Mall in front of the SURC. A student standing to the side stopped his conversation with another student to spit at her feet. Zahiah,...

Ellensburg Police arrested a 49-year-old Ellensburg man on Monday, who is suspected to be involved in last Sunday’s drive-by shooting at Timothy Park housing complex north of Central’s Student Village....

Following Monday’s Associated Students of Central Washington University (ASCWU) meeting, board members have made plans to move forward with the process of a recall election of President Ryan Anderson,...

Updated Monday, Feb. 22 at 10 p.m. ASCWU officers expressed their discontent with President Ryan Anderson’s leadership capabilities by moving forward with a vote of no confidence in his ability to...

Michael Eric Dyson, a prominent voice in the nationwide conversation on racial equality, is coming to speak at Central on Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. in the McIntyre Music Building Concert Hall. Doors will...

The FBI and Oregon State Police arrested Militant leader Ammon Bundy and four of his followers during a traffic stop in Oregon on Tuesday. The arrests resulted in a shootout injuring Ryan Bundy and...

The Flint Michigan water crisis has garnered attention by President Obama. On Thursday he announced the administration is giving $80 million to the city of Flint, Michigan according to Black Enterprise....

When Katie Brown started her workday in Ellensburg in mid-August, she had no idea the largest wildfire in state history would soon threaten her childhood home in Okanogan, Wash. “I was not home when...