… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Starting Thursday, Minneapolis Police Department scanner traffic will be off ...

In most newsrooms, a scanner that picks up on local police and fire communications provides a constant stream of background noise that often prompts reporters to leap into action when they hear ...

BERKELEY — Full public access to police scanner activity in the East Bay will soon be unavailable after Berkeley councilmembers gave the city’s police department permission to encrypt radio ...

Late last month, the citizens of Boulder lost a crucial tool of transparency when the Boulder Police Department began encrypting its communications. While most people are probably most familiar with ...

Boulder’s police radios will no longer be available for curious minds and ears starting Tuesday. Up until now, anyone interested in what the Boulder Police Department was doing could go to a police ...

The change is part of a $72 million emergency radio system overhaul that officials say will improve coverage, safety and reliability. EVERETT — Police radio communications across Snohomish County will ...

A Parks Township woman is turning to technology to help local law enforcement identify lost animals in the Alle-Kiski Valley. Amber Phillips, owner and director of the nonprofit Champion’s Crusaiders ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis will cease public broadcasts of its police radio communications starting in May and shift to online dashboards for the public to track emergency incident responses. In a news ...

In October I wrote a piece about monitoring public safety radio in 2020 using police scanners, digital and analog. It’s worth noting that there is still a fair amount of radio communication on the air ...

The Boston Police Department’s radio transmissions are entering the digital age Saturday, much to the chagrin of local scanner enthusiasts. The agency announced its plans earlier this week to convert ...