Charles Payne shares the legendary journey of billionaire J.R. Simplot, detailing his first investments to becoming the ...

The Klaus Thiessen Award has been in existence since 2014, but it had never gone to an agribusiness — until this year. Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corp. President and CEO Keith Lund, left, ...

I was talking to Idaho State track and field director Hillary Merkley at the Simplot Games breakfast recently, and I asked her about the aging wooden track where the Simplot Games, and later the Big ...

While most of us were bundled up by our heaters or shoveling out our walkways and vehicles this weekend as the community battled the effects of a severe winter storm, four of Summerville High School’s ...

POCATELLO — The 2026 Simplot Games — the 46th annual high school track and field event — will welcome back Olympic gold medalist Tara Davis-Woodhall and Paralympic gold medalist Hunter Woodhall as ...

Another meet, another school record for Laramie indoor track and field. Sophia Gonzales finished second in the girls 3200-meter run prelims in a school-record 11 minutes, 1.08 seconds as the Simplot ...

Two longtime employees of J.R. Simplot Co. took on the Boise-based potato giant over its COVID-19 vaccine policy. But they didn’t get the outcome they were seeking. Howard Skidmore and Sarah Dance had ...

Paralympic medalist Hunter Woodhall and his Olympic medalist wife, Tara Davis-Woodhall, will be honored at the 46th annual Simplot Games next month. Simplot, which heralds itself as the nation’s ...

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 ...

A federal judge has ordered the J.R. Simplot agribusiness company to pay for the upkeep of cattle allegedly contaminated with heavy metals during litigation over the matter. The ruling results from a ...