Every morning at 5 a.m., Mike Vanderlaan wakes up to check the overnight recordings from the police and fire scanner that feed into two computers in a corner of his living room. If a fire, motor ...

Wen Gutreuter considers herself a safety-conscious resident who likes to stay abreast of news in her community. The 50-year-old mother of three said the fastest and most useful information she gets ...

Public safety agencies in Austin — police, fire and EMS — will soon go radio silent to the public after they switch to an encrypted radio system. This means that the current publicly available scanner ...