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 ...

LAKE BENTON, Minnesota — A Hutterite community in southwest Minnesota plans to build a hog feedlot as it recovers from a 2020 fire that killed thousands of pigs. Heartland Hutterian Brethren Inc. in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — A TV documentary series about an Anabaptist community in Montana offers a “distorted” and contrived image, bishops representing the Hutterite faith in the U.S. and Canada said ...