EAST GRAND FORKS – East Grand Forks City Council members on Tuesday approved a land exchange between the city and the J.R. Simplot Company, trading a parcel in Grand Forks bought by the council for ...

It seems like no tour of Idaho would be complete without a mention of J.R. Simplot. And what better place to start to get to ...

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 ...

Simplot fire does little damage Firefighters responded to a fire at the J.R. Simplot Co. plant on Gateway Drive in Grand Forks about 10:20 a.m. Monday. The fire was put out in about 20 minutes.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Billionaire J.R. Simplot, the spud king of America whose wealth also helped create one of the world's biggest computer chip makers, died Sunday at his Boise home. He was 99. Ada ...

J.R. "Jack" Simplot, 99, who launched an agribusiness empire that supplied french fries to the McDonald's fast-food chain and then used his billion-dollar fortune to invest in computer chips, died May ...

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 ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- After a day-long union meeting, employees of J.R. Simplot went on strike, picketing outside the potato processing plant in Grand Forks about 6 p.m. Monday. The strike came shortly ...