In the coming months, all Westcom radio channels will be silent to the public. Find out why the emergency communications center made the decision.

Yakima police are looking for a person who began illegally transmitting on the department’s main radio frequency, interrupting officers’ communications.

Yakima police are investigating "pirate" transmissions that are disrupting law enforcement communications. A plan to replace the radio system is underway as part of a voter-approved overhaul for first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At Riverfront Live, nine people were shot in what investigators now describe as a gunfight between two men inside the venue. The ...

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We verify if it's legal to decrypt encrypted police scanner traffic, after a local department announced it's moving to encrypted dispatch and radio communications.

DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) – The City of Decatur announced on Tuesday that the police department is moving to encrypted dispatch and radio communications. City officials said the move is being done to ...

Cincinnati police arrested two men in connection with a mass shooting at a Cincinnati concert venue that injured nine. Franeek Cobb, 24, and Derrick Long, 29, each face at least one count of felonious ...

The arrest caps years of growing pressure on Andrew, the brother of King Charles III and son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, over his friendship with late convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey ...

A council president for a Fayette County municipality is facing charges after police said he was stalking an assistant police chief and interfering with an investigation. Jason William Frazier, 43, of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — The Charleston Police Department arrested a man following a shooting that happened at a home on Friday night. Bradon Davon Raequan Hamilton, 29, of Charleston, was charged ...

Police scanners are going silent thanks to a new rule requiring the communication system be encrypted. The mandate from the federal government means the frequently-used method by media to track down ...