My first big-time gig at the Staten Island Advance back in the 1990s was as an overnight cop and fire reporter. The major part of my job was listening to police dispatch transmissions over a radio ...

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 officials are expected to vote tonight to relinquish a critical public resource for timely news — but they still have time to change their minds. In recent weeks, Berkeley police have asked ...