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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOISE – The family of J.R. Simplot plans to start construction next spring on a $100 million “urban meeting place” in downtown Boise. Project spokesman David Cuoio said the development will be called ...

BOISE – 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 as ...

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 ...

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 ...

These workers are among more than 500 who have worked on various aspects of the JUMP complex since construction on the Simplot family project began in spring 2012, says John Beck, project ...