It was 1979 when potato king J.R. Simplot built a 7,370-square-foot, Mediterranean-style mansion atop a prominent hill in the Boise Highlands. Although the mansion has since been demolished, Simplot’s ...

This story was updated Tuesday, April 1, to add two paragraphs of comment from the city of Boise. Change may be coming soon to Simplot Hill, the site just off Bogus Basin Road where the mansion ...

The J.R. Simplot Company plans to crank up its famous fryer today in celebration of National French Fry Day. Free french fries and drinks will be given away today from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Celebration ...

BOISE, Idaho — The City of Boise is warning visitors to Esther Simplot Park to swim at their own risk after elevated levels of E. coli bacteria were found in two popular ponds at that location. The ...

Idaho's capital will be the setting for a memorial to honor business icon J.R. Simplot, who died at the age of 99 in 2008. The $70 million project in downtown Boise will include nearly six acres of ...

BOISE — Simplot Grower Solutions, the agriculture retail division of the Simplot Company, proudly marks its 80th anniversary on Sept. 12, celebrating eight decades of ag innovation, resilience and ...

A lot of obstacles jeopardized some of the nearly finished Boise projects that bear the Simplot name. City planners balked at the first designs they saw for Jack’s Urban Meeting Place — a learning, ...