Long ridiculed by radio deejays and television shows alike asemblematic of a sorrowful, smoggy area people quickly pass throughon their way to Las Vegas or the Colorado River — the 909 areacode is ...

A region long identified by one area code could soon receive a second. Two years after the North American Numbering Plan Administrator, or NANPA, introduced the idea of overlaying the 909 region with ...

It took only 12 years for “the 909” to develop a reputation. Since its inception in 1992, the area code has become synonymous with the Inland Empire -- a badge of pride for locals and a target for ...

Arguing that the Inland Empire is running out of phone numbers, the California Public Utilities Commission voted Thursday to give western Riverside County a new area code while allowing San Bernardino ...