Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana’s 50 Hutterite colonies have a big impact on agriculture and Hutterites often sell their ...

Glenda Maendel’s German-influenced intonation is in keeping with a North Dakotan accent, although certain sounds in her soft voice hint at an unfamiliar dialect. Her voice’s German lilt is stronger ...

This is the second of two columns about harvest time at the Forest River Hutterite Colony. You go west three miles out of Inkster, N.D., and 2 miles north on a gravel road. Then you dip down into the ...

Hutterites have lived in North Dakota for as long as most of their German-Russians and even migrated from some of the same areas in south Russia and Ukraine, but unless someone catches sight of ...

I grew up in Edgeley, and the Willowbank Hutterite colony was within our city limits. Although they only lived a few miles away, I never really gave the Hutterites much thought. We rarely saw them in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LEWISTOWN — An art project that put disposable cameras into the hands of four-dozen Hutterite children has provided a rare glimpse into one of the state’s most recognizable but least understood ...