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.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - A couple from Cottondale was arrested in Washington County on burglary charges. Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a residence at ...

I wrote a letter to the editor of 12 eastern Oregon and eastern Washington newspapers suggesting that the citizens of those areas petition Congress to reorient the border between Oregon and ...

Frito-Lay issued a limited recall Monday on 6,344 of its 13-ounce bags of Lay’s Classic Potato Chips distributed in Oregon and Washington, according to the the Food and Drug Administration.

What happened: At first glance, Dr. Frank Li didn’t look like the kind of person the Oregon Health Authority ... Li had run a chain of pain clinics in Washington until 2016, when state ...

Thousands of Washington residents are left in the dark ... Of the 4.7 million residents that are being tracked, King County leads the number of power outages with 37,000. Pierce County has ...

A man is lucky to be alive after walking naked for 25 miles in rain and near freezing temperatures from the Oregon border to ... employees alerted the Benton County Sheriff’s Office, deputies ...

He is also a member of the Oregon State Bar Association. Expressing his enthusiasm for the new position, Barnett stated, “I am honored to have been selected as the Washington County Counsel and ...

In fact, most of Maryland and Virginia’s most expensive ZIP codes are Washington suburbs ... tiny Gibson Island community in Anne Arundel County, more proof that waterfront property comes ...