{"id":121448,"date":"2026-03-12T05:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/03\/12\/psc-takes-step-to-keep-406-as-montanas-only-area-code\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-03-12T05:13:42","modified_gmt":"2028-08-28T05:13:42","slug":"psc-takes-step-to-keep-406-as-montanas-only-area-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/03\/12\/psc-takes-step-to-keep-406-as-montanas-only-area-code\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"PSC Takes Step To Keep 406  As Montana\u2019s Only Area Code"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montanans love living in the \u201c406,\u201d but Montana could run out of 406 phone numbers  by 2033.<br \/>\n\t  It\u2019s not because all the numbers will be in use by far.<br \/>\n\t  Still, the clock is ticking on assigning a new second area code, and there\u2019s no question  Montanans have pride around the 406.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cMontana is one of the last states with a single area code,\u201d said Mike Sheard, with the Montana Public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121651,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121448\/revisions\/121651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121448"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=121448"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=121448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}