The ARLnow app just picked up two big new features, starting with a real-time feed of local public safety incidents.
The other is a daily audio briefing — a 4-5 minute rundown of the past day of ARLnow original reporting, playable from the home screen.
Free — no account required.
The Scanner tab, in the bottom navigation bar, lists incidents as they’re dispatched: what was reported, a plain-English summary, the block or intersection, and a timestamp.
Scanner reports are preliminary by nature. Details change once crews get on scene, and some calls turn out to be nothing at all — the feed shows what’s being dispatched, then updates the summary when possible as the incident unfolds.
The daily briefing plays with one tap and covers roughly the past 24 hours of our reporting, in the same vein as the Daily Update podcast that launched earlier this month.
Audio summaries were on the “coming soon” list when the app launched three weeks ago. Already live from that same launch: section browsing, push alerts for the topics you pick, the local forecast, dark mode, article read-aloud, saved stories and in-app news tips.
Both additions are free, like everything else in the app.
Kick the tires and let us know what you think — there’s more coming.
