Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 – 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 ...

Something’s been missing from Boise’s skyline for the past couple of weeks – something big, bright and patriotic. It’s the giant American flag that long has flown over the hilltop home of the late J.R ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Simplot family’s hilltop mansion that briefly served as the residence of the Idaho governor, will soon be demolished, a spokesman said Monday. Work to remove the ...

PITTSBURGH & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Kraft Heinz Company (Nasdaq: KHC) (“Kraft Heinz” or the “Company”) and Simplot Food Group, a division of the J.R. Simplot Company (“Simplot”), announced ...

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 ...

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 ...

Billionaires get restless. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the latest proof point, having just announced Alphabet, an elaborate corporate shakeup that trims their involvement in their ...

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 ...

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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