PORTLAND — Farm entrepreneur Frank Tiegs has prevailed over the J.R. Simplot Co. in an auction to buy the bankrupt NORPAC cooperative’s processing plant in Quincy, Wash., for up to $107 million. The ...

Americans may soon be eating high-tech potatoes, after a genetically engineered (GE) spud that makers say resists bruising and reduces a possible carcinogen was approved by the US Department of ...

Portland’s Woodstock neighbors are fuming after a viral photo appears to show a woman cutting flowers outside Woodstock Elementary. Residents say gardens have been hit for months. Police want tips and ...

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 ...

J.R. Simplot, whose lifetime fascination with the potato helped change the nation’s eating habits and made him a billionaire, died Sunday. He was 99. Simplot, who in his prime drove around Idaho in a ...

YOTES LOSE FOURTH STRAIGHT: An attendance of 4,726 fans see the Yotes lose their home finale at Simplot Stadium. It's the fourth straight loss for the Yotes. EOU PADS LEAD: AJ Prom scores on a 9-yard ...