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

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 ...

Listening to Boston police radio transmissions over old-school scanner equipment will soon yield nothing but dead air. The Boston Police Department said Wednesday that it will convert its analog radio ...

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 ...

SALEM — The Salem Police Department has added digital encryption to its radio system to improve security of police officers and limit unauthorized access to personal, identifiable information. The ...