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 ...

When the new 442 area code overlay goes into effect on May 2,everyone in the 760 area code should dial the full number for allcalls. That’s one of the steps telephone companies say callers shouldtake ...

A second area code — 820 — for those already in the 805 will mean a different way of calling for people on the Central Coast, with a 6-month practice period kicking off Dec. 1 (Verizon map) A second ...

The Times really dialed a wrong number. Our previous efforts to defeat the overlay were not to protect our “vaunted” area code but to avoid dialing four extra digits each and every time we pick up a ...