Prompted by floods, Schweitzer declares state of emergency

BILLINGS — More rain is on tap this week for Montana communities besieged with flood waters that have swamped neighborhoods and rural farmland and isolated a town near the Wyoming border, officials said.

Authorities in Yellowstone County were searching for a man reported missing after a backhoe he was operating along Pryor Creek tipped into the water.

AP Photo/Billings Gazette, Paul Ruhter

A man walks across South Canal Road in Huntley, Mont. on Sunday as flood water from Pryor Creek inundates a neighbor...