If you've been listening to your trusty old police scanner, you may be missing something: half the action. Douglas County in Minnesota has started broadcasting on a new digital frequency and some ...

LAPORTE — This city has been declared a "dead zone" for picking up the new digital radio frequencies on many of the expensive police scanners listening enthusiasts rushed out to buy. There ...

The Racine Police Department moved their radios to digital transmission this spring, effectively stopping the public and press from listening in with scanners.

On Tuesday last week, the familiar crackle of radio traffic and the chatter of Billings police officers and local dispatchers on scanners across the city went silent, and it's not coming back. At ...

This new digital system will provide the option for each police departments to encrypt its radio communication channel so it can’t be heard by outside scanners, said county 911 Executive ...

The ability for the public and media to listen to police scanner activity may come to an end or be drastically altered when Luzerne County implements a new 911 radio upgrade. County officials plan ...

After the explosions yesterday at the Boston Marathon, police departments used social media to send out immediate updates.