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 ...

A swath of Virginia from the Northern Neck through Richmond to Dinwiddie and Buckingham counties to the south and west will get a new, additional telephone area code, 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 is getting a brand new area code. The State Corporation Commission just announced that the new area code to be designated to the region will be "948." The North American ...

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 ...

People on Virginia’s Eastern Shore will soon need to dial 948 as their area code, in addition to the familiar 757 code. The State Corporation Commission announced Wednesday that the new area code will ...

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 ...