Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has been forced to issue another “apology”, this time to the owners of Bojangles Saloon in Alice Springs, for publicly claiming the owners breached responsible service of alcohol laws, which was incorrect and led to the bar having its licence suspended for two days.
Forty handpicked brushtail possums have had their return to the Red Centre celebrated, after being driven to extinction in the region in recent years.
A spate of stolen cars and property damage in Alice Springs last week has led to officers from Darwin and other areas deployed to Central Australia as part of “Operation Archer”, which has recovered multiple vehicles and seen youths arrested, while one officer broke his ankle chasing suspects.
Yipirinya school principal Gavin Morris has been arrested and charged by the NT Police over multiple alleged aggravated assaults of students at the school on separate occasions in 2023.
A woman who allegedly stabbed three people she knew in the head with a broken bottle in a Sadadeen home early yesterday morning has not yet been caught, NT Police said.
A woman was killed when she was hit by a road train on the Stuart Highway overnight, NT Police said.
A 70-year-old man was threatened with an “edged weapon” in his bedroom after an offender broke through the front door of his Alice Springs house with an iron bar, with that offender and another man later returning to the house and again threatening the man with an “edged weapon”, NT Police said.
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A man was caught in a residential backyard after breaking into homes in Alice Springs, NT Police said.
Labor NT Senator Malarndirri McCarthy will be sworn in today as the Indigenous Australians Minister following a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday, that will also see Member for Solomon Luke Gosling appointed as “special envoy” for Defence, Veterans’ Affairs and Northern Australia.
An eight-year-old child and his mother had a machete held to their throats in an Alice Springs home invasion last weekend, while a 75-year-old woman woke up to find three men in her bedroom, one armed with a machete, with the details of the crimes suppressed by the NT Police, sources have told the NT Independent.
Three males broke into a house in Alice Springs with unspecified weapons around midnight, and stole a car after confronting the owner, NT Police said.
