The Musselshell, a slow, meandering river stretching 500 miles from the Crazy Mountains to the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife refuge, was poorly prepared for the punch the floodwaters delivered.

Update 4:40 p.m. The Bobcat fire in Musselshell County has grown to 12,000 acres Thursday afternoon, and an evacuation has been ordered for the Hidden Springs subdivision, according to emergency ...