When Napa County’s police radio traffic went dark Sept. 1, residents lost a decades-old window into law-enforcement activity — a quiet but consequential change that arrived weeks before Berkeley ...

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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 ...

Going through all the security checks and procedures at an airport can be both stressful and annoying. What items does the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) ban or allow you to bring? Will ...

Regular wallets hold your cash and cards in one place so nothing slips out. However, for a while now, there has been some buzz about RFID-blocking wallets everywhere. They look like any other wallet, ...

The Boston Police Department’s decision to digitally encrypt its radio transmissions might not seem like something worth our attention in the Berkshires. Nonetheless, when the head of the New England ...

OAKLAND — The Oakland Police Department plans to silence its radios this week, cutting off public access to real-time information that has been available to the public for decades. Beginning at 4 a.m.

Air traffic controllers dealt with repeated outages as delays lasted hours. A temporary ground stop halted incoming flights at Newark Liberty International Airport on Thursday due to air traffic ...

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 ...