It’d been a year, but all of Brenda Hofer’s doubts and anxiety flooded back. Fortunately, so did her dreams. On May 24, 2006, she literally fled from the place she called home — a Hutterite colony in ...

In their own personal chapter, nine ex-Hutterites write about a way of life they describe as a "very oppressive regime." All were members of a colony from the time they were born in the 1980s until ...

DULUTH, Minn. -- The sheltered, simple life of a traditional religious colony isn't what it appears on the surface, say members of a group who rejected their upbringing and are making a new life for ...

Photo illustration by Getty Images. A female agricultural expert and former university agricultural professor is suing large seed-growing corporation Nutrien, the Montana Seedgrowers Association, the ...

Four days. Four hundred quilts. At the Altona Christian Community in rural Henderson, dozens of women joined forces to put on a colorful display of service to others. In what has become an annual ...

Lisa Marie Stahl, a young Hutterite woman who grew up at the Gildford Colony near Havre, provides a rare public glimpse into the lives of the Hutterites, a communal religious group with colonies in ...

HELENA -- The state should classify seven Hutterite families on a colony in central Montana as poor and ensure they have the same access to Medicaid as other poor Montanans, an attorney for the ...

To many, they’re simply the colorfully dressed vendors with the stern look at the Farmers Market. But to Rhode Island photographer Jill Brody, the thousands of Hutterites who live in colonies across ...

It had been a year, but all of Brenda Hofer’s doubts and anxiety flooded back. Fortunately, so did her dreams. On May 24, 2006, she literally fled from the place she called home — a Hutterite colony ...