Area residents used to dialing seven digits for local calls will soon need to reprogram their phones – and their fingers. Starting next spring, the Triangle will have a second area code in addition to ...

The change affects everyone who currently has a 919 area code on their phone number. Dialing ten digits for every number is a byproduct of the Triangle's explosive growth over the past two decades.

It's optional now, but beginning March 31, callers in Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Orange, Wake and Wayne counties will be required to dial the area code of the phone ...

With folks in the 919 area code now under edict from those who handle the telephone numbers to dial an area code on all calls, many are dialing 911 instead of 919, and those calls, as you know, go to ...