It provides emergency dispatch services for most fire and law ... Dirkse told supervisors that multi-agency dispatch centers are unusual in California. Most counties have law enforcement-only ...

Mayors from nearly a dozen Vancouver Island communities are asking the province to halt its plans to pass on 911 dispatch costs to municipalities. As Kylie Stanton reports, the mayors say it's ...

After a 75-minute presentation by Dirkse and his team, and a nearly two-hour back-and-forth with the board, the supervisors ...

The sheriff is obligated to follow the board’s budget guidelines, while the Board of Supervisors is not allowed to interfere ...

The Montgomery County Hospital District has paused an app connecting people in cardiac distress with CPR-certified people due ...

Saint John police are testing whether responding to fewer medical calls will improve efficiency and resource use within the ...

An atmospheric river is expected to bring torrential rain to California this week, threatening parts of the state with flash floods and mudslides.

San Francisco broke a daily record for rain that had been in place since 1887 on Tuesday, with a pounding 2.53 inches of rain ...

A crash involving two vehicles was reported on Standiford Avenue at McHenry Avenue in Modesto on Friday afternoon.

Her brother is a firefighter in central California. "I wasn't eager to run into burning ... of Police (main), Erie Bureau of ...

but in the meantime deputies and dispatchers must use radios instead of patrol car computers. Jan. 2, 2025 As before, other systems — including body cameras, 911 lines and department emails ...