Seeing the red lights flashing behind you while driving on the highway can immediately make your heart sink, so it's no surprise that a lot of drivers are using police scanners to detect nearby police ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu’s interim police chief is opposing allowing the media to have access to police radio scanners, despite sounding open to it last month. Newly appointed interim Chief ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Those in the Peoria area who listen to police radio traffic on their phones or on radio scanners heard silence Tuesday. The silence was due to the planned encryption of the main ...

As numerous law enforcement agencies flocked to Minneapolis following the Annunciation Church mass shooting, the city temporarily made its police radio traffic publicly accessible for the first time ...

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 ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - If you own a police scanner, starting Friday, the Greenville Police Department will transition to a fully encrypted radio system, meaning you won’t be able to hear officer ...

The glitch appears rooted in a broader, little-publicized push to silence similar police scanner traffic across Alameda and ...

A false alarm went out Saturday morning for a chemical leak in Webberville that didn’t really happen. Just before 11 a.m., an announcement could be heard over ...

The scanner was the voice of North Adams in my dreams, a mix of donuts and disasters, courage and close shaves. My deep ...