Hutterites take their name from Jacob Hutter, whose last name means “hat-maker,” from eastern Europe, one of the leaders of the Anabaptist movement of the 16th century Reformation era. Hutter was ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (CN) – A federal judge ordered a South Dakota Hutterite colony to restore protected wetlands that it drained and converted into farmland. U.S. District Judge Karen ...

WASHINGTON - Hutterite bishops say a new National Geographic reality series that follows the members of a rural Montana colony gives a "distorted and exploitative version" of life inside a ...

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 ...

CONRAD, Mont. -- If it wasn't for the Hutterites, the Big Sky State would be home to only a small number of hogs. Forty colonies account for a whopping 95 percent of Montana's hog production. Midway ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) – A sharply divided Montana Supreme Court has ruled that forcing a Hutterite religious colony to pay workers’ compensation insurance for jobs outside the commune is not an ...

Across Alberta’s fertile grainlands, no farmers work their soil with greater diligence or more fruitfulness than the Hutterites, the bearded and devout descendants of German-speaking immigrants who ...

A group of nine ex-Hutterites are going to great lengths to denounce the theology and governance flaws of Hutterite colonies in North Dakota and Canada. They are now touting a second book about their ...

Lisa Marie Stahl became a newspaper columnist when she was just 15, writing about the traditions and day-to-day activities of her Hutterite colony in north-central Montana. Her slice-of-life columns ...

This photograph is on display as part of the “Hutterite Life” exhibit at Goshen College. Various aspects of Hutterite history, faith and culture, from their European beginnings in the 16th century ...

Planning a movie night with 'The Hutterites' on your favorite screen? Figuring out where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to stream or rent this Colin Low directed movie can be tricky so we at ...

SPRING PRAIRIE COLONY, Minn. - The yoga positions proved briefly cumbersome for the 13 students in Cheryl Gottenborg's elementary class. The kindergarten through third-grade students giggled with arms ...