BOISE - After months of digging and searching, the City of Boise says they are finally done with excavation at the site of the future Esther Simplot Park. But the bill for those unexpected cleanup ...

The future site of Boise’s Esther Simplot Park has been used many ways over the years, few of them compatible with a city park. In the 1940s, some of the land was used as an airfield to train student ...

BOISE, Idaho — One of the latest additions to Boise's parks, and one of the most popular, is Esther Simplot Park, named after the widow of the famous Idaho potato magnate. Almost 50 years ago, ...

Last spring, crews digging in the site of Boise’s future Esther Simplot Park found something they didn’t expect: $6.5 million worth of contamination and industrial-level waste. The cleanup is done now ...

The popular swimming ponds at Esther Simplot Park have closed multiple times since the park opened because of bacteria. City officials are crossing their fingers that won’t happen again, writes Idaho ...

BOISE - DNA test results show that fecal bacteria from dogs, geese and humans contributed to the recent E. coli contamination in several Boise ponds, city officials said on Sunday. Ponds in Esther ...

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 ...

BOISE — The city of Boise has closed Esther Simplot Park ponds due to the discovery of blue-green algae. Ponds number one and two at the park have been closed after testing showed the discovery of ...

The beginning of 2016 saw the conclusion of an Oldcastle Precast project to design, detail, manufacture, and supply bridge components, decorative signs, multiple stormwater drainage products, and ...