Three Barkly Regional Council councillors quit unexpectedly on Thursday during a regular council meeting, the chief executive officer has confirmed, with the resignations following one of the three telling staff that recent issues had “attracted negative media attention”.
A male has undergone emergency surgery for “lacerations” after a group fight in Alice Springs, one of three group fights in the town on Wednesday night, Northern Territory Police have said, however the police have given no explanation about how the man received his injuries.
The Fyles Government has unveiled its Alice Springs crime prevention plan that will involve the government providing “temporary accommodation” for unsupervised children and young people found out at night, but concerns remain over the voluntary nature of the program.
A plan to close off the Alice Springs CBD to traffic at night using bollards, has been put to the Alice Springs Town Council by the Fyles Government, the mayor has said, while an independent MLA has gone further and suggested heavy duty gates and concrete road blocks need to be used.
For the second time in two weeks, NT Police have warned Alice Springs residents not to enter the CBD, or to leave if they were already there, with sources saying it was due to stolen utes being driven through the centre of town.
The Fyles Government has lost control of Alice Springs and should realise the problems are beyond them and call for federal government help, the head of Central Australia Tourism has said in the wake of police telling residents to stay out of the CBD for the second time in two weeks, and as police claim reinforcements are on the way.
One teen is in custody and police are calling for the public to help identify other occupants of a stolen Toyota Hilux ute that was driven dangerously around Alice Springs before being used to smash into an unmarked police car twice, and another vehicle, while youths were in the tray of the ute.
EXCLUSIVE: A man’s body has had to be exhumed after he was buried in the grave of another man, following body identification failures by a Northern Territory hospital and a funeral home, the NT Independent can reveal.
Alice Springs residents were still picking up from the damage Sunday night caused by a violent “microburst” thunderstorm that tore through the town late Saturday afternoon, leaving homes severely damaged, one school with its roof torn off and at least 80 residences still without power as of last night.
The NT Government has committed more than $300 million on art galleries and museum projects across the Territory, with an independent MLA raising concerns that the recent cost blow-out of the Darwin city art gallery could result in a shortfall for the long-delayed National Aboriginal Art Gallery in Alice Springs.
The Stuart Highway near Adelaide River is the worst hot spot for vehicular accidents with the major highway identified as the most dangerous road in Darwin, according to the latest data from national insurer AAMI, with men found to be the predominant drivers involved in the crashes.
Five men have been charged charged with drug possession and supply after allegedly being caught driving with drugs to an un-named remote community, northwest of Alice Springs, NT Police have said.
