The outbreak at the Okanagan Correctional Centre has been declared over.

The union representing Canadian prison staff is calling for new protection measures at a B.C. federal prison in the grips of the country's worst inmate COVID-19 outbreak.

He is accused of planning a shooting that took place in Mission on New Year's Eve 2008.

A 71-year-old man is in critical condition after being struck in a marked crosswalk by a hit-and-run driver on Friday, according to Mission RCMP.

Witnesses reported seeing about a dozen police cars near a home in Kelowna's Mission neighbourhood on Friday afternoon.

The warning comes five days after Abbotsford police warned that Taylor Dueck had been released from prison into Abbotsford.

Mission RCMP do say suspicious circumstances do not appear to be a factor in the death of a male found inside a vehicle that had apparently plummeted 100 metres down a steep embankment.

Mission RCMP is still investigating how John MacKenzie escaped the prison, but believe he may have fled Canada and be at large internationally.

According to BC Hydro, as of 9 a.m. Saturday, the largest amount of power outages were in the Thompson and Shuswap regions, with 12,475 customers affected.

A group appearing to be the same thieves targeted Prospect Equipment twice in one week, making off with about $50,000 in goods.