High above Idaho's capital on a hillock of deep green Kentucky bluegrass, $260,000 in renovations to the governor's mansion are nearly complete: New carpets are installed, muted, tasteful tones of ...

Kemp's thoughts are echoed by former Boise legislator John Gannon, who said at the hearing that Idaho's governor's mansion program (which includes a maintenance fund that has plummeted from $1.5 ...

Idaho's not-quite-governor's mansion. I was quickly informed that this was the home of Boise's wealthiest citizen, the ever-industrious. J.R. Simplot ...

BOISE, Idaho — High above Idaho’s capital on a hillock of deep green Kentucky bluegrass, $260,000 in renovations to the governor’s mansion are nearly complete: New carpets are installed, muted, ...

It's a 7,370-square-foot house, with 1,151 square feet of garages, set on 37 acres in Boise -- and there's just one problem -- the state of Idaho doesn't want it. The "it" in question is the Idaho ...

Wed., Dec. 18, 2013 Idaho’s hilltop governor’s mansion, former home of the late J.R. Simplot, has remained unoccupied since it was donated to the state in 2004. No Idaho governor has lived there.

Idaho remains one of just six states with no governor’s mansion, and a state committee decided Monday to continue paying a $4,500-per-month housing stipend to the governor until that changes.

Winder chairs the panel, which reports that a fund to maintain Idaho's long-empty governor's mansion held $936,000 as of Aug. 31. That's enough to pay for about five to six years of annual ...

BOISE — Idaho aims to return the hilltop mansion to the Simplot family by June 30 in a tentative agreement over the would-be governor's residence-turned-money pit that remained vacant even ...

BOISE -- Lawmakers on Thursday rejected a proposal to sell Idaho's long-empty governor's mansion to help the cash-strapped state parks system. Rep. Grant Burgoyne, a Boise Democrat, introduced the ...

Idaho lawmakers abandoned plans to build a new governor's mansion on a Boise property and will instead hand over the land to the city for a park.