Look out 818, here comes the 747. The telephone area code that has defined the San Fernando Valley for two decades is running out, and a new one may be approved as early as next week. A recent ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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