RICHMOND, Va. (WSET) — The State Corporation Commission (SCC) has approved bringing a new area code for Central Virginia. The SCChas approved bringing a new area code– 686 - to Virginia regions which ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WSET) -- The State Corporation Commission announced on Thursday that the western and northern portions of Virginia will be assigned a new area code. Under the plan, no residents or ...

Eastern Shore of Virginia residents signing up for new telephone lines may get a new area code. Virginia's State Corporation Commission said on its website that beginning May 9, new telephone lines or ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — It’s the end of an area code. Certain parts of Central Virginia that are known as the “804” will soon be known as something else. That’s because the State Corporation Commission ...

A new 826 area code will soon coexist with area code 540 in portions of Southwest Virginia, according to the Virginia State Corporation Commission. The new area code was approved in June 2020 after ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The 757 now officially has a second area code: 948. With this new area code in Hampton Roads comes a new way to dial numbers. The 757 area code, launched back in 1996 by splitting off ...

NORFOLK, Va. — We now know when Hampton Roads is getting a new area code. The current 757 area code isn't going away, but we are running out of numbers for it. Last year, the State Corporation ...

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline will be getting its own three-digit dialing number – 988 – in 2022. Before that can happen, dialing changes will be necessary in two Virginia area codes – 804 ...

PETERSBURG — Better get used to entering "804" if you call anyone else in the 804 area code. If you don't, then by the end of October, as the recording goes, your call will not be completed as dialed.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The 540 area code will soon be put to rest. According to the State Corporation Commission, in the second quarter of 2022, there will be no new numbers using the 540 area code ...