Loretta Lynch is a commissioner on the California Public Utilities Commission. The California Public Utilities Commission is poised to split the 310 and 909 area codes this summer based on the ...

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 ...

In the modern era, where phone numbers are portable and geography is less tied to a person’s culture, area codes still hold a surprising amount of social weight. While the seven digits following an ...