This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Starting Saturday, residents living in the San Fernando Valley will have ...

The San Fernando Valley got an additional area code on Saturday, and it changed the way numbers must be dialed. The state utilities commission approved the new area code in 2008, saying the vallley ...

State utility officials voted Thursday to overlay a new area code in the San Fernando Valley -- an action that follows a decade of emotional debate and effectively ends the Valley’s longtime ...

A July 19, 1984, Los Angeles Times article about area codes contained a map of the two — count them, two — area codes for Los Angeles. (Los Angeles Times archive / newspapers.com) Long ago, when the ...

LOS ANGELES — Telecommunications companies urged residents with an 818 area code to begin the new eleven-digit dialing procedure Saturday to get in the habit before it becomes mandatory next spring.

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, Calif. Beginning May 18, new phone lines and services in the 818 area code which covers the San Fernando Valley, will be given the new 747 area code. But starting at 12:01 a.m.

Facing a dwindling number of available phone numbers for a growing number of San Fernando Valley residents, California officials began holding a series of public hearings Monday on how to introduce a ...