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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Change may be coming soon to Simplot Hill, the site just off Bogus Basin Road where the mansion belonging to the late Idaho potato ...

J.R. "Jack" Simplot, 99, who launched an agribusiness empire that supplied french fries to the McDonald's fast-food chain and then used his billion-dollar fortune to invest in computer chips, died May ...

A strike at Belgium's Clarebout Potatoes, which is in the throes of a takeover by US-based JR Simplot, has entered a fifth day. The industrial action across family-owned Clarebout's four production ...

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 ...

The flag at J.R. Simplot's former mansion on Bogus Basin Road flies at half-staff on Monday morning. Joe Jaszewski / Idaho Statesman J.R. Simplot, the state's richest man and an Idaho icon for longer ...

HELM, Calif., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Drivers at J.R. Simplot have voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Local 431 after months of organizing at this major agricultural company in Central ...

Credit: Alpha Studio 03/Shutterstock. US agri-food group JR Simplot has agreed to acquire Belgian potato-processing company Clarebout Potatoes for an undisclosed sum. The deal, which is expected to be ...

J.R. Simplot always saw government as just another cog in his machine. When I joined him for dinner at the Arid Club in Boise in April 2001, Simplot was warned to watch what he said to me because I ...

Dozens of undelivered ballots found in dumpster at Seattle park The ballots have already been reissued to the affected voters. 5-year-old critically injured, 16-year-old seriously hurt in Everett ...