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 ...

BOISE, Idaho — 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 County ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oct. 7—MOSES LAKE — The Association of Washington Business stopped at the J.R. Simplot factory in Moses Lake on Friday, during day three of their eighth-annual Manufacturing Week bus tour. "We're out ...

A memorial service for Debbie McDonald, director and executive committee member on the J.R. Simplot board of directors, is set for Saturday, March 19, in Boise. McDonald, who was active in the Boise ...

BOISE, Idaho — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co.'s new genetically modified potato. But one of the company's oldest ...

From American Falls School Board: The new school being built in American Falls will be named the J. R. Simplot Elementary School according to a press release by the American Falls School District ...

J.R. Simplot Elementary School is a public school located in American Falls, ID, which is in a distant town setting. The student population of J.R. Simplot Elementary School is 362 and the school ...