RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — Montana's governor was not in Montana — or in the U.S. at all — when punishing floods hit Yellowstone National Park and communities on its fringes this week. He was in Italy.

Earlier this week, as Columbus was bracing for the Yellowstone River to crest, a pair of older men were working quickly to carry sandbags across the road to their property and set up a flood barrier.

The body of Tim Sandford, a hiker from Minnesota who disappeared over three months ago after he was swept into a Montana ...

“I guess we’re stuck here a few days,” Wieland said, noting his worries were nothing compared to those who had homes in the flood waters. Casey Wieland and Krista Stippelmans, of Denver, take refuge ...

The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for south-central Montana after nearly one inch of rain fell in the Beartooth Mountains Sunday night and into Monday. "Much of this fell on a ...