Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo.

At the end of every year, a new telephone book, usually weighing a few pounds, lands with a thud on doorsteps across the country. The directory is estimated to consume millions of trees a year to ...

ALBANY — The days of having a new telephone book regularly delivered to your door are over for many New Yorkers. The state Public Service Commission on Thursday allowed Verizon and its directory ...

Residents in Hampton, James City County, Newport News, Williamsburg and York County can keep their telephone books out of area landfills when they participate in a special telephone book recycling … ...

What’s black and white and read all over? Not the white pages, which is why regulators have begun granting telecommunications companies the go-ahead to stop mass-printing residential phone books ...

Telephones—and telephone books—quickly caught on, and the first New Haven telephone book that was more than just a sheet of cardboard was published in November 1878.

The publishers say phone books are still needed in some rural areas. But for those of us with Internet access? Not so much.

PITTSBURGH — Why do we still get phone books in 2019? Channel 11 News viewers sent us videos of their tweens and teens trying to navigate the lost art of the yellow pages. And yet, the books ...

You might not need one but they are still being sent to homes all over Western New York. We asked people in Buffalo when they last used a phone book and what they do when they get one in the mail.

It sounds like a punchline, but Ammon Shea has written a history of the phone book. What makes it more interesting than reading the actual phone book is the fact that Shea loves nothing more than ...

The phone book, a one-time necessity that many now consider a wasteful nuisance, is about to disappear from your life forever. Frontier Communications, which provides landline phone service in the ...