The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada on Thursday approved a second area code because available prefixes in the existing 702 area code will be exhausted in 2014, according to NeuStar, the ...

Starting Sunday, all local phone calls across the country will require the use of the area code. In Northern Nevada that means even local callers will have to press 775 before the phone number. The ...

Phone call habits at Lake Tahoe will change drastically in the next couple years. To explain the changes, representatives from Pacific Bell, GTE and the California/Nevada Area Code Administration ...

Emergency calls are still 911. The 725 area code will co-exist as an “overlay” with 702. Nevada had a single area code until 1998, when Clark County was split from the other 16 counties in Nevada.