Washington County

A high fire warning is in effect for most of the state due to the hot, dry weather. The Maine Forest Service has been dispatched to help local firefighters contain fires in Baileyville and Biddeford.

Operation Game Thief, a nonprofit that works with the Warden Service, is offering a $4,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for killing two moose illegally in Washington County.

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection said Worcester Holdings violated site and erosion control laws when it built a development of 52 cabins over the course of a few years, according to a consent agreement between the company and the department.

An attorney for the Worcester family, which is behind the national Wreaths Across America program, said the decision was made after hearing from the local community.

While the state's Latino population is still one of the smallest in the country, it's increased by roughly 75% since 2010.

The small Down East town had been courted as the potential site of the world's tallest flagpole and multi-billion dollar veterans memorial park. Columbia Falls officials said it was one several development pressures facing the town in recent years.

The Down East town of fewer than 500 people has been eyed as the site of a multibillion-dollar veterans memorial park and a 1,400-foot flagpole, envisioned at the world's tallest.

Columbia Falls, a town with fewer than 500 people, will vote on a proposed large-scale development moratorium later this month. The town's attorneys have said a moratorium is necessary to plan for and protect Columbia Falls from the impacts of any major development, whether it's a multibillion-dollar veterans memorial park or something else.

Wreaths Across America Founder Morrill Worcester and his sons want to build the world's tallest flagpole and a multi-billion-dollar veterans memorial park, which they say will attract millions of visitors from across the country — not to Washington, D.C., but to the remote Washington County town of Columbia Falls.

Local officials say that the town could harm families living on both sides of the border, and devastate the local economy.