Police scanners have often been the first sign of news that is breaking. But these days, police scanners are going silent.

The Longview Police Department is making a change to protect their radio channels.

(TNS) — A popular pastime among neighborhood watchdogs will soon go away in Rochester as local law enforcement agencies transition to encrypted radio communications. Both the Rochester Police ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- Public access to the scanner in St. Joseph will be removed as the city transitions to encrypted radio channels. According to Buchanan County Sheriff Bill Puett, the ...

The multi-million dollar effort to remove public access to police radio communications across the East Bay has a new start date, roughly a month after similar plans were undone by a technology snafu.

After weeks of technical hiccups, nearly every law enforcement agency across the East Bay has now silenced their police radios. Before sunrise Wednesday, all but one Alameda County agency pulled ...

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 ...

OAKLAND — For decades, the public has had the ability to tune into radio channels where Oakland police and other Bay Area law enforcement agencies discuss emergency calls and coordinate responses.

Yakima police have launched an investigation into illegal broadcasts on their primary radio channel, which have been disrupting emergency communications for months.

Coach Glyn Johnston died on Monday at the age of 94, according to Union Grove ISD. Johnston attended school at Union Grove, graduating in 1948. The city of Longview held its eighth annual Homeless ...