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.

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 ...

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 ...

Manitoba could have acted quicker to prevent COVID-19 from spreading in Hutterite colonies, especially given the "intense threat" the virus has demonstrated to Hutterites west of the province, an ...

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 ...

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 ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - 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 ...

When Tirzah Maendel and her family went into COVID-19 isolation just over two weeks ago, what they missed the most was their close-knit Hutterite community. "Shame and blame, there is no need for any ...

SIOUX FALLS - For years, friends have been asking Aberdeen attorney Jeff Sveen how to get their hands on the best fresh chickens, down pillows or handmade couches from South Dakota's Hutterite ...

HELENA, Mont.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 ...

LAKE ANDES, S.D. - Turkey is the traditional meat for Thanksgiving, and the holidays and turkey production is an important of South Dakota's economy. An average of 5 million turkeys are produced ...