Brenda Hofer always knew someday she’d leave. "Someday I’m out of here," she’d tell visitors at the Hutterite colony in Fort Benton, Mont., where she lived. And if she had to, she’d run away with the ...

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 ...

HELENA, Mont.—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 unconstitutional ...

Thirty-five years ago, as a young Methodist minister, Donald W. Huffman watched a community explode. “We could look out our window and see the fires burning in the Hough,” says the retired professor ...

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 ...

HELENA, Mont. – 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 ...

MOORHEAD — In a move to work more closely with zoning and permitting for Clay County's only Hutterite colony, a development code amendment was recommended by the county's Planning & Zoning ...

The Hutterian Brethren, or Hutterites, is a religious group originating from the Reformation in the 16th century. Hutterites and Mennonites (and the Amish) share common roots. Both sects are ...

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 Schreier's 9-page ...

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 ...