Starting Oct. 7, all Metro Detroit residents will be required to dial 10 digits to complete calls in preparation for the 679 ...

SPOKANE, Wash- The next time you get a phone call from a 564-area code don’t hang up. That phone call is coming from the west side of the state. The 360-area code was exhausted, meaning there’s no ...

OAKLAND — The new telephone area code for a big stretch of the East Bay, including its largest city, Oakland, is 341, state regulators said Thursday. The 341 area code will be overlaid upon — ...

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Editor’s note: Barbara Holland takes a break from her Q&A column format to look at how new state laws are affecting area homeowners associations. A new area code number, 725, will be added to the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — It was just last year that we had to start dialing the 716 area code to make local phone calls, something we have never had to do before. Now, Western New York is getting a new ...

In the mid-20th century, in response to the United States’ rapidly expanding telephone network, executives at the Bell System introduced a new way of dialing the phone. Until then, for the most part, ...

“People need to be aware instead of being blind-sided,” said Mark Doyle, director of the New Hampshire Department of Safety Division of Emergency Services and Communications. Otherwise, he said, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Getting a new phone line in Western New York this coming week? Well, you may get a new area code with that phone line. The New York State Department of Public Service announced that ...