Levi Landry

It comes a year after taxpayers gave their blessing to borrow $275 million for an arts centre and an arena.

For more than six years he has sparred with the district in court and in council chambers, all starting with a dispute with his mushroom-farming neighbour and growing to a sense he's "watchdog" at town hall.

He clearly blamed the mayor for his departure, but it's not clear what David Trawin and city hall agreed to before the announcement.

"People are shocked when I ask if they want firewood."

It's not the most expensive of the 25 city council investigations, but it could be the most costly for Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson.

"They didn't just take my money, they took my future."

"Having a mayor we have now in that chair has emboldened people to be more confrontational, and certainly the things I have to consider are much different this term than last term."

Police are looking for witnesses to the daylight hit-and-run.

"I don't understand why he continually wants to draw attention to his poor conduct, but I guess that's his choice to make."

"We have no idea, since the mayor decided to use that space as his city hall office, what he had in there that should properly have been at city hall."

"This enforcement operation represents a substantial disruption to entrenched drug trafficking networks operating in Kamloops."

He specifically cited mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson as his reason to leave, who made his job "unsustainable and untenable."

"Witnesses reported seeing the male surface briefly before disappearing, and attempts to rescue the male were unsuccessful."

BC's gang enforcement squad said his home was searched after they got a tip about an illegal Thompson-Okanagan gun manufacturing trade.

The township tried to buy the property after numerous attempts to enforce bylaws. The drug lab operation started after the deal fell through.

It was just one in a series of Kamloops grassfires beginning last month which is suspected to be arson.

Around 900 Royal Inland Hospital patients travel to Kelowna each year for a PET/CT scanner, frequently used to accurately detect cancer cells.

The District of Summerland beat Brad Besler in court last month. This month, it took the dispute to the court of public opinion.

Janos Juckiewicz was arrested on Vancouver Island after abducting two teens whom he sexually assaulted over weeks.

"It does not necessarily have to go into the same building as the cancer centre. So, we're going to keep pushing, even if it's at an off-site location in Kamloops."

Police said criminality is not suspected in the young person's death.

The Christian nationalist musician is touring Canada and he's included a stop in West Kelowna.

From RCMP investigations to rewriting provincial legislation, it's not just Kamloops feeling the effects of the feuds at city hall.

Three people have been charged in a double homicide nearly three years after the bodies…