San Francisco resisted an area code change, but in the end new phone numbers will no longer come with the 66-year-old 415 prefix. Get ready for 628. “Everyone loves 415,” said Christine Falvey, Mayor ...

The California Public Utilities Commission approved the new area code Thursday as part of an "overlay" plan for the same geographic region as the existing "415" area code. New telephone numbers will ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) -- New phone dialing procedures caused some confusion over the weekend for a few dozen people who called 911 because their phone lines would not connect to others with a 415 area ...

The "415" code currently covers San Francisco, Marin County, and parts of the Northern Peninsula, but it's expected to run out of numbers by 2015, so a new area code, "628," will soon be introduced.