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 ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Simplot family’s hilltop mansion that briefly served as the residence of the Idaho governor, will soon be demolished, a spokesman said Monday. Work to remove the ...

BOISE – An iconic Boise home will soon be no more. The Simplot family announced today that the mansion of potato magnate J.R. Simplot will be torn down. Simplot died in 2008. The house along Bogus ...

Something’s been missing from Boise’s skyline for the past couple of weeks – something big, bright and patriotic. It’s the giant American flag that long has flown over the hilltop home of the late J.R ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho aims to return the hilltop mansion to the Simplot family by June 30 in a tentative agreement over the would-be governor’s residence-turned-money pit that remained vacant even ...

J.R. Simplot continues to make a mark on Boise, even seven years after the billionaire potato producer's death. Two big projects are under construction downtown: a new headquarters for the company ...

CALDWELL --Simplot families across southwest Idaho are responding to some shocking news on Wednesday. On Wednesday a thousand Simplot workers in Caldwell, Nampa and Aberdeen were notified those plants ...

PITTSBURGH & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Kraft Heinz Company (Nasdaq: KHC) (“Kraft Heinz” or the “Company”) and Simplot Food Group, a division of the J.R. Simplot Company (“Simplot”), announced ...

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 ...