The humble ZIP Code shows up in all kinds of surprising places. Planet Money looks at how it was born, how it transformed the mail and talks to one researcher who argues that it's gone too far.

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A new wildfire has started in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles County. The Kenneth Fire sparked along the 24000 block ...

Another fire has sparked amid strong winds and a number of other wildfires in Los Angeles County Wednesday evening. The ...

While the housing market has shown weakness in recent months, some areas still outperformed the rest of the country.

Two Dallas-Fort Worth zip codes were among the hottest in the U.S. housing market last year, new research from Opendoor shows ...

The ZIP code is less like a cold, clinical, ordered list of numbers, and more like a weird overgrown number garden. It ...

WASHINGTON — LSU's Baton Rouge campus and the St. Charles Parish community of Montz are set to get a single ZIP code if the U.S. Senate takes up legislation the House approved on a voice vote ...

but some zip codes are so elite the average home sells for millions. A new report has now revealed the most expensive areas to live in the US. Almost all of the top ten neighborhoods are highly ...

TELL US WHAT YOU KIND OF SAW YESTERDAY AND WHAT YOU’RE SEEING NOW THIS MORNING WHEN WE FIRST DESCENDED INTO THE AREA, WE CAME ...