The State Corporation Commission announced today that the North American Numbering Plan Administrator has assigned a new area code to western and northern portions of the Commonwealth. The new 826 ...

The new area code for Western Virginia will be 826. An earlier version of this story included the wrong number, which was provided by the State Corporation Commission. The 540 area code is running out ...

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 ...

Virginia, which began with a single 703 area code in the 1960s, has been assigned its seventh area code, with more coming, state regulators say. Every area code in Virginia has or will soon run out of ...