SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A federal judge in South Dakota has rejected a request to dismiss charges against a Hutterite religious colony accused of negligence in a deadly traffic crash, which could send the ...

This undated image released by National Geographic Channels shows Hutterite Judy Hofer picking carrots from the garden in King Colony, Mont. "Meet the Hutterites," a National Geographic documentary ...

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 ...

IPSWICH, S.D. (AP) - Classrooms in the Ipswich School District’s three Hutterite colony schools are similar to elementary and middle-school classrooms in other public schools. Walls are adorned with ...

RYEGATE – A year ago, the Golden Valley Hutterite Colony in Ryegate launched a steel fabrication operation after leaders there realized they needed to do something different. Hutterites have farmed ...

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 ...

HILLSBORO, N.D. -- Despite protests from some neighbors, a Hutterite colony likely will start construction in the spring in southern Traill County. On Wednesday, the Bohnsack Township Board approved ...

To most Montanans, Hutterites are the simply dressed vendors at local farmers markets. Their produce is a testament to their dedicated agrarian lifestyle. It's not often that outsiders are invited to ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. - Parts of the former Park Ace Hardware building here will be reused by Hutterites for other construction. Two Hutterite colonies began razing the building on Highway 71 near ...

The 33-year-old nurse, who doesn't speak German, has spent the past few years gaining the trust of several communities of Hutterites, a deeply religious people with ancestral ties to the Amish who ...

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