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 ...

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 — Religious colonies of Hutterites in rural Montana are fighting the state's attempts to impose a labor law backed by businesses that complain they can't outbid the low cost of the communal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The peace-driven Anabaptist sect, made up of families who live and work together, has built a relationship with high-end resorts, supplying... On a rainy Sunday evening following the first of its Long ...

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 concerned many ...

"John Adams taught in one. Abraham Lincoln attended one. Laura Ingalls Wilder attended one, and at the age of 15, began teaching in one." GALATA — Though the school didn't get any more money for ...

A 900-pound grizzly wandered into the garage of a Hutterite Colony in Montana, Wednesday. “Members of the Colony tried to deter the bear from the residential area,” said Wesley Sarmento, Fish, ...

When Lona Running Wolf started working with Hutterite schools, she was struck by what she saw unfolding on the colonies. She felt it was reminiscent of what transpired among her own community, the ...