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 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 ...

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 ...

To settle a lawsuit brought by Idaho ranchers, the J.R. Simplot agribusiness company has taken ownership of cattle allegedly harmed by a phosphate pipeline rupture. At the request of the parties ...

J.R. Simplot celebrated their 80 th anniversary earlier today. J.R Simplot began fertilization operations on December 10 th, 1944. This anniversary is to celebrate the growth of the company and those ...

BOISE Idaho Area McDonald's units here reportedly gave away French fries on Monday to honor the memory of J.R. Simplot, whose company developed the frozen fry. Simplot died last week at age 99. The ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho (TAM) is partnering with the J.R. Simplot Company to meet the growing needs of the community and strengthen the museum’s mission of ...

A local company is celebrating an anniversary. Simplot is celebrating 80 years at the Don Plant. J.R. Simplot Company began operations at its first phosphate fertilizer production facility on December ...

The Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a settlement with J.R. Simplot Company involving Simplot’s Don Plant manufacturing facility located near Pocatello, ...

Nance Beston, Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, Wash. 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 ...