San Mateo and Merced counties hired a public safety-dedicated GIS company to aggregate and develop maps and databases suitable for the next generation of emergency dispatch systems.

More than 7,250 public safety agencies have signed onto FirstNet, according to AT&T, the contractor building the network. Officials say mission-critical capabilities will be rolled out throughout the year.

With the traditional start of wildfire season approaching, teams of developers will try to come up with new ways to detect blazes and help victims.

The telecom industry's biggest lobbying association is pushing back on a bill that would prohibit wireless carriers from throttling public safety agencies' data plans.

Many of the department's workstations are more than seven years old and can reportedly take as long as 20 minutes to boot up.

The FirstNet board established a set of principles for investments into the network, signaling an intention to build a roadmap to guide future improvements.

The bill would allow police officers to use a device to determine whether a driver was using a mobile phone at the time of a collision.

Residents of two cities were woken up in the middle of the night Tuesday after someone gained access to the radio-based warning system.

Some in emergency call centers say they're concerned with how the the introduction of photos and videos to 911 calls could affect their mental well-being.