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 ...

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 ...

Agriculture is the focus of the University of Idaho’s first endowed deanship. The J.R. Simplot Family Foundation has made a “significant gift” to establish the J.R. Simplot Endowed Dean of the College ...

Three landowners with Central Valley ties rank among America's 100 largest private landowners, according to The Land Report's annual survey released Jan. 13.

POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI)– Simplot celebrated the 80th anniversary of the opening of their Pocatello Don Plant with an event on Tuesday. The Don Plant processes phosphate ore and produces fertilizers ...

The J.R. Simplot Co. plans to acquire the operating business of Clarebout Potatoes, a Belgium-based processor. The planned acquisition brings together two market leaders in frozen potato products ...

BOISE Idaho J.R. “Jack” Simplot, the founder of restaurant-industry supplier J.R. Simplot Co. and a key figure in the early growth of quick-service chains like McDonald’s, died peacefully at his home ...

The former home of the late J.R. Simplot will soon be gone. [image-1]A Jan. 4 announcement from Simplot's heirs said work already begun to tear down the home and the the destruction would be "complete ...

After years of lying largely dormant, plans are in place to have Boise’s Simplot Hill undergo a more than decadelong makeover that will bring a feature-rich, publicly accessible park to the north ...