For one weekend each February, Pocatello becomes more than just a city in Idaho. It becomes a national epicenter of high school track and field.

Simplot Corporate Headquarters, 1099 W. Front St. in Boise. Pictured on Jan. 13, 2026. (Sarah A. Miller/smiller@idahostatesman.com) Two longtime employees of J.R. Simplot Co. took on the Boise-based ...

Keiran Giraldo set a school record and won the girls 1,600-meter run finals to lead Laramie indoor track and field as the ...

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 guest Olympians ...

There is the romantic side of the Tara-Davis Woodhall and Hunter Woodhall story, the side that connects Pocatello and the ...

Some win some gold. Some win hearts. Sometimes people do both. It was 2017 when Tara Davis-Woodhall first saw her future husband, Hunter Woodhall, at the Simplot Games. During a Q&A for the 46th ...

You can't have fast food without fries — and no matter which fast food chain is serving them up, there's a good chance they all came from the same place.

BOISE, Idaho -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co.'s new genetically modified potato. But one of the company's oldest business partners -- McDonald's -- ...

The agricultural company J.R. Simplot Company, one of the largest potato producers in the world, struck a deal with the developers of a specific gene editing technology. That tech will allow Simplot ...

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 ...

J.R. Simplot Co. is planning a $30 million expansion to its north Grand Forks potato processing plant, according to a city memo, though a company employee said corporate approval is still pending.