Overdose prevention site opens at Stand Off

Government of Alberta - The province is working with a harm-reduction agency in Lethbridge to provide lifesaving medical supervision on Kainai First Nation. The Alberta Health Services' ATCO trailer has been set up in Stand Off, Alberta to provide lifesaving medical supervision to help prevent opioid overdoses. The initiative will help the community respond to a spike in opioid overdoses.

Two men charged in relation to Blood Tribe Reserve homicide

RCMP Alberta - Following an investigation that began on February 23 into the death of a man on the Blood Indian Reserve the RCMP have charged two males with Second Degree Murder.

Blood Tribe Chief and Council election to be held Nov. 22

Shellie Byers and Chris Davis - The Blood Tribe is heading to the polls for a Chief and Council election. An advance poll is being held in Calgary today November 15 at the Carriage House Inn, and election day is Tuesday November 22.  Polling will take place at the Kainai Multi-Purpose Centre in Stand Off, and the Sik-Ooh-Kotoki Friendship Centre in Lethbridge.  Five people are running for Chief and 115 candidates are competing for twelve councillor spots.

Man charged in relation to 2015 Stand Off homicide

RCMP Alberta

Stand Off, AB - A 29-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the death of Brittany Medicine Crane whose body was discovered on the afternoon of May 21, 2015, when Blood Tribe Police Service were dispatched to a residence in Stand Off after having received a report of an unresponsive woman at that location.