BOISE - As Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter asks state lawmakers for millions of dollars in reserves in case wildfires devastate Idaho again in 2008, funding for rehabilitation efforts in southern Idaho have ...

Idaho regulators claim they lack jurisdiction over cattle owned by an Idaho ranch that were allegedly contaminated by a spill from a phosphate slurry pipeline. Meanwhile, the J.R. Simplot Co., which ...

J.R. Simplot, a billionaire who grew up in a sod-roofed log cabin and dropped out of school at 14, then marshaled luck, spunk and inventiveness to fashion an entrepreneurial career that included ...

GRAND VIEW, Idaho — Environmental non-profit Snake River Waterkeeper (SRW) filed a civil lawsuit against J.R. Simplot Company Tuesday for polluting the middle Snake River in violation of the Clean ...

BOISE — The J.R. Simplot Company has partnered with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to open approximately 10,000 acres of the company’s private property in southeast Idaho’s highlands for ...

POCATELLO — The federal government has suggested a tweak to J.R. Simplot Co.’s planned Smoky Canyon Mine expansion, which regulators say would reduce selenium impacts while also enabling the company ...

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 ...