The 310 area code would be replaced with a new area code for all cell phone users under a plan backed by the California Public Utilities Commission that is likely to stir complaints in the politically ...

Residents and businesses on L.A.’s Westside and in the South Bay will have to dial 11 digits to make local calls starting next July as the state Public Utilities Commission on Thursday unanimously ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A July 19, 1984, Los Angeles Times article about area codes contained a map of the two — count them, two — area codes for Los ...

The state Public Utilities Commission will hold public hearings today and Wednesday to gauge reaction to a proposal for a new “overlay” telephone code in the Westside and South Bay areas now served ...

Guest host Judy Muller discusses the new "424" area code overlay. LAist is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that is also home to L.A.’s largest NPR station broadcasting at 89.3 FM. We center our ...

Los Angeles County is getting its first new area code in years, and that's sure to mean more requests for hard-to-get area codes, those unofficial badges of pride, those three little numbers that say ...