An Alberta judge has ordered the province to restore full-time operations at Red Deer's only overdose prevention site, less than two weeks after its hours were cut in half.

Red Deer Court of King's Bench Justice Gillian Marriott granted an interim injunction Monday that reverses the reduction of OPS hours ahead of the site's planned closure at the end of March.

A lawyer for Recovery Alberta, the branch of Alberta's health system responsible for mental health and addictions services, said during t…