OLIVET, S.D. – A spaghetti dinner with people in prairie dress and a church service in German is all in a day's work for Kerri Lutjens. The 33-year-old nurse, who doesn't speak German, has spent the ...

Montana's Hutterite communities contribute more than $365 million in annual spending for the state and 2,200 year-round jobs, according to what is being touted as a first-of-its-kind study by the ...

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Canada is struggling to contain a COVID-19 outbreak among a highly private religious group that lives in tight-knit colonies and eschews mainstream society for a more traditional agrarian lifestyle.

Some rural Manitoba well users say proposed changes to provincial water safety legislation are an example of government ...

PIERRE, S.D. — The state of South Dakota says a Hutterite farmer co-op has for years been operating as a grain trader without a license. In response, the South Dakota Hutterian Co-operative has filed ...

Jason Waldner could easily still be working in the chicken barn of a North Dakota Hutterite colony. It’s the job he was given, but not the job he chose. Instead, he is a partner in a construction and ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) A character on a National Geographic Channel documentary series about a rural Hutterite colony defended his community and the production company after Hutterite bishops criticized the ...

There are rarely traffic jams in the small Adams County farming town of Ritzville, but there was one last week as people turned out in droves for 20 tons of free potatoes. At times, the line of cars ...