Arkansas scanner · members only
The scanner,
written down.
A written recap of every hour on Arkansas public-safety radio, the calls our monitor flags as they happen, and an overnight report every morning. Nothing to sit and listen to. No names. Block-level locations.
Supporters ($5 a month) get the overnight report and the morning brief. Cancel any time.
Right now on the board
Quiet overnight hour with scattered welfare, theft and driver calls
Tuesday, 1 am to 2 am · the latest hourly recap
Members read the full recap, the flagged calls behind it and every hour before it. Unlock the board
Right now
Every hour, summarized while it is still news
At the top of each hour the last 60 minutes of radio traffic become a headline, a short narrative and the notable calls, with an activity level so you know at a glance whether it was a quiet hour or a busy one. The page refreshes itself while you have it open.
Flagged calls
The calls that matter, as they happen
Structure fires, pursuits, serious crashes, shootings, missing people. Our monitor flags them within minutes, grades each one by severity and tags it with the area and the agency on the radio. Tap an agency to see only that part of the state.
- Critical, high and medium severity at a glance
- 48 hours on the board, grouped by day
- Block-level locations, never a house number
Hour by hour
Scroll back through the whole day
Two days of hourly recaps, each one a tap away. Narrow the board to one region or one kind of call and the hours with nothing in them collapse out of the way, so you can see exactly when your county got busy.
Overnight
What happened while you slept
A 10 PM to 7 AM recap posts every morning, written the way we report it. The last 30 nights stay on the board, so a story that surfaces days later still has its overnight context.
Filters
Find your corner of the state
Filter by area, by type of call, by severity or by day, or search a street, a city or an agency. Your filters live in the link, so a view of just Northwest Arkansas fire calls is something you can bookmark or send to someone.
The morning brief
And it lands in your inbox
Every morning around 7:40, members get the brief by email: the overnight report, stories that broke overnight, yesterday's headlines and the forecast across the state. Insiders also get the flagged calls and the hour-by-hour timeline in it.
How we handle it
Unconfirmed, and labeled that way
This is radio traffic as it was heard. Details change as agencies release information, and we say so on every recap.
No names, no plates
Nothing identifying a person makes it onto the board. House numbers are rounded to the block before anything is published.
No audio, no raw transcripts
The feeds belong to the people who run them. We publish our own written summaries, not recordings.
Written by the newsroom's tools
The recaps are generated from the audio and reviewed the way we review a tip: useful for knowing what is happening, not a substitute for the story we report afterward.
Membership
Pick a level
Every level keeps the news free for everyone else and goes toward newsroom staffing, so Arkansas is better informed. The scanner board and court watch are what members get today; more is coming.
Supporter
$5 / month
or $50 a year
- Overnight scanner report, every morning
- The member morning brief by email, ad-free
- Your name on the supporter wall
- Funds newsroom staffing at Arkansas Breaking News
- Live board, court watch and records are Insider
Insider
$10 / month
or $100 a year
- Everything in Supporter
- The live board: every hour, recapped
- Flagged calls as they happen, 48 hours deep
- Court watch: hearings, filings, what happened in court
- Records search with booking photos
- Flagged calls and court in your morning brief
Newsroom Partner
$25 / month
or $250 a year
- Everything in Insider
- Quarterly Q&A with the newsroom
- Tell us what to dig into
- Partner listing on the site
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Know what is happening before it is a headline.
Start with the overnight report for $5, or get the whole board for $10 a month.