Canada is home to more Hutterites than anywhere in the world and Alberta has nearly 200 Hutterite colonies. Mary-Ann Kirkby’s family left the colony she was born into when she was 10 years old in 1969 ...

Canada's chief public health officer says discrimination against Hutterites will not help build trust as some colonies across the Prairies experience outbreaks of COVID-19. "The surrounding ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hutterites migrated to North America in the 1870s, spreading out across South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota and into Canada ...

Good morning. It’s James Keller in Calgary. As COVID-19 cases rise across the country, there have been an increasing number of infections and outbreaks on Hutterite colonies across the Prairies. There ...

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 ...

CALGARY—As the Hutterites mark more than 100 years since they first settled in Canada, a writer whose family left their colony 50 years ago is re-releasing her book in the hopes of shedding light on ...

The prairies of Alberta have plenty of room, but not for Hutterites. The Hutterites are a group of almost 4,000 “Christian Communists” who broke away, in the 16th Century, from the Mennonites (see ...

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.

We left the Hutterites in 1770, invited to settle in the Ukraine and the Volga region by Catherine the Great. In 1763 the Russian government issued a manifesto offering foreign settlers free land — as ...