In Cedar Mills, a small community of just 53 citizens, effluent from individual sewage systems has been flowing directly into the south fork of the Crow River. To remedy that situation, the United ...

Rhode Island is one of only 11 states with a single area code. But how long can that last?

A black desktop telephone. The earpiece tone. The clickety-click of a rotary dial. Those were the sights and sounds of an era in telephone communication that was still in its infancy 60 years ago.

It was 1892 when the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (aka: AT&T) first built an interconnected long-distance telephone network. The new system reached from Chicago to New York. However, at that ...

“Number please,” we remember telephone operators asking us when we placed calls decades ago. We attribute those words to a time when operators placed all our calls — local and long distance — years ...

The iPhone7 goes on sale Friday. The proliferation of cellphones and now smartphones, required an expansion of area codes to meet the demand. Here is a look at the history of area codes in ...

NEW LEBANON, N.Y. — The last stage in the Taconic Telephone Co.'s transition to direct-distance dialing will be completed when the New Lebanon area is included in the system next Saturday, at 2:01 p.m ...

NAPLES, Ida. — A man holed up in a mountaintop cabin with a white supremacist fugitive for 10 days after a U.S. marshal was killed surrendered Sunday to get medical attention for gunshot wounds. 50 ...

Direct distance dialing is being planned for Rochester starting in 1961, Stanley Davis, Northwestern Bell Telephone manager, announced. New telephone equipment to be installed sometime next year that ...

DDD, direct distance dialing, would be made available to Tuscaloosa residents on Aug. 21. This would enable telephone customers on the Tuscaloosa exchange to dial direct from their own telephone to ...