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 ...

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 carry workers ...

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 ...

HELENA, Mont. — 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 ...

The Supreme Court won’t get involved in a Montana decision to force a Hutterite religious colony to pay worker compensation insurance for jobs outside the commune. The high court on Monday refused to ...

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 ...

The 1,600 Hutterites of South Dakota may now buy new farm land. This right was confirmed for members of the religious sect last week when Circuit Judge Charles Hanson ruled that a 1955 law against ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Up to 10 colonies of the strict Christian Hutterite sect say they face religious persecution from the Canadian province of Alberta's plan to force them to have their ...

Brenda Hofer always knew someday she’d leave. "Someday I’m out of here," she’d tell visitors at the Hutterite colony in Fort Benton, Mont., where she lived. And if she had to, she’d run away with the ...