A woman was killed after she was run over while lying on the Stuart Hwy in Alice Springs, NT Police has said.


A woman was killed after she was run over while lying on the Stuart Hwy in Alice Springs, NT Police has said.

Eight kids aged between 11 and 16-years old have been arrested over an alleged attempted break-in on Friday night in Alice Springs, NT Police have said.

A group of five youths, including two eleven-year-old boys, allegedly broke in an 84-year old’s house in Tennant Creek on Sunday, with one restraining her, while the others searched her property before running off, NT Police have said.

The only way the Yuendumu community will ever recover, and get any form of justice from the death of Kumanjayi Walker, is to free themselves of the NT Police executives’ constructed blame of Constable Rolfe, and look at the multitude of failures made by management sending the Immediate Response Team there in the first place, writes the former leader of that unit Carey Joy.

The family of Kumanjayi Walker have started a Go Fund Me page in an attempt to raise $400,000 to pay for lawyers and for expenses for his family Yuendumu community members to attend the coronial inquest into his death in Alice Springs.

NT Police are seeking the public’s help to identify the criminals allegedly involved in breaking into a “government premises” in Alice Springs and stealing a white Mercedes Benz Sprinter that was then used in a crime spree throughout the night.

A man and woman have been arrested following a drug bust at a rural Alice Springs property, with drug detectives finding more than $75,000 in cash, four firearms and ammunition, a “replica” automatic rifle and 4.3kgs of marijuana, NT Police said.

Electrical Trades Union members at Power Water and Territory Generation will vote on whether to take industrial action to protest the four-year pay freeze and low staffing levels, which could include not working overtime and not disconnecting power from homes for non-payments, the union’s organiser has said.

A 35-year-old man was arrested in Alice Springs on Sunday after allegedly assaulting his 29-year-old female partner, with both being sent to hospital with injuries, NT Police said.

Two people were killed and a third adult was taken to Tennant Creek Hospital following a single vehicle rollover 75km north of Tennant Creek on the Stuart Highway, NT Police said.

A 26-year-old man has been charged with an alleged indecent assault of a girl at an Alice Springs business, NT Police have said.

Two men and a teen have been arrested and charged for allegedly seriously assaulting a man with a weapon in an Alice Springs street in the middle of the day last week that sent the victim to hospital with head injuries, NT Police said.