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 ...

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Agriculture is the focus of the University of Idaho’s first endowed deanship. The J.R. Simplot Family Foundation has made a “significant gift” to establish the J.R. Simplot Endowed Dean of the College ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Simplot Family Foundation will submit plans to the City of Boise on Tuesday for a new 200-acre public park along North Bogus Basin Road. Jack's Park, also known as Simplot Hill, ...

CALDWELL — Community members and leaders including farmers, executives, and generations of the Simplot family gathered on Friday afternoon to celebrate the agribusiness retail company’s 80 years of ...

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 ...

After years of lying largely dormant, plans are in place to have Boise’s Simplot Hill undergo a more than decadelong makeover that will bring a feature-rich, publicly accessible park to the north ...