SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A federal judge in South Dakota has rejected a request to dismiss charges against a Hutterite religious colony accused of negligence in a deadly traffic crash, which could send the ...

HELENA, Mont. – The Montana Supreme Court did not immediately rule after hearing competing arguments from a Hutterite colony and the state on whether Montana's requirement that employers carry workers ...

At Willowbank Colony, folks don't pay much attention to the approaching millennium. There's too much work to do. A crop must be tended. An order of wooden trusses has to be hauled out. Livestock must ...

GRAND FORKS - A new reality TV show about life in a Hutterite colony in Montana gives outsiders a glimpse of a unique religious culture centered in the Northern Plains of North America. But it's also ...

It’d been a year, but all of Brenda Hofer’s doubts and anxiety flooded back. Fortunately, so did her dreams. On May 24, 2006, she literally fled from the place she called home — a Hutterite colony in ...

Hutterites are Protestants of German descent whose traditional, religious-centered lives have been compared to that of the Amish and Mennonites, but they live in commune-like colonies in rural areas ...

IPSWICH, S.D. (AP) - Classrooms in the Ipswich School District’s three Hutterite colony schools are similar to elementary and middle-school classrooms in other public schools. Walls are adorned with ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - People in Missoula are crowding grocery stores to pick up their Hutterite turkeys. The doors are constantly opening as customers rush in to get Thanksgiving food. "I'm finding ...

The establishment of a new Hutterite colony is adding a new school in Edmunds County. 8 students are moving into the Edmunds Central district from the Grasslands Hutterite Colony in the Leola School ...