BOISE -- Two ponds at Boise's Esther Simplot Park have been cleared to reopen after the city successfully rid the water of potentially-dangerous cyanobacteria, also know as blue-green algae. The ...

BOISE -- One of the ponds at Esther Simplot Park Pond was shut down Wednesday after water samples tested positive for a species of algae that can be fatal if swallowed. The pond - officially named ...

The city of Boise announced Monday that both ponds at the Esther Simplot Park are again open to the public, after a potentially toxic blue-green algae bloom forced their closure on Sept. 25. Pond No.

Esther Simplot Park’s Pond No. 1 and the children’s beach has reopened for swimming following the discovery of cyanobacteria in the water last month. The bacteria, or blue-green algae bloom, was first ...

The popular swimming ponds at Esther Simplot Park have closed multiple times since the park opened because of bacteria. City officials are crossing their fingers that won’t happen again, writes Idaho ...

If you drove through Boise’s West End 10 years ago, it looked a little different from today. In 2015, crews were building Esther Simplot Park along Whitewater Park Boulevard, Jerry’s 27th Street ...

The future site of Boise’s Esther Simplot Park has been used many ways over the years, few of them compatible with a city park. In the 1940s, some of the land was used as an airfield to train student ...

BOISE - DNA test results show that fecal bacteria from dogs, geese and humans contributed to the recent E. coli contamination in several Boise ponds, city officials said on Sunday. Ponds in Esther ...