Police are looking for a perpetrator who broke into a Alice Springs business and stole cash and a safe, NT Police said.


Police are looking for a perpetrator who broke into a Alice Springs business and stole cash and a safe, NT Police said.

A police officer was injured early Sunday morning in Alice Springs when a stolen Toyota Hilux accelerated and rammed into his parked vehicle, causing a suspected concussion, NT Police said.

A 45-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly using a car to run over her partner in Alice Springs, NT Police said.

A tourist from the United States had her purse, passport, and bank cards stolen while she was in Alice Springs Hospital on Friday, NT Police said.

UPDATED: One of two teens who sparked national outrage for allegedly fracturing an eight-week-old baby’s skull during a mid-afternoon Alice Springs home invasion in December escaped custody yesterday afternoon, after reportedly being permitted to attend a funeral in Lajamanu, but was re-arrested on Thursday.

A man has been arrested following a police pursuit after officers tried to stop him over an aggrevated burglary he allegedly committed in Alice Springs last Thursday.

A woman who yesterday allegedly stabbed a woman in back of the head at an Alice Springs licensed premises, and then stabbed a man in the arm and upper body, is still on the run, NT Police said.

The CLP Government has scrapped the $1.30 minimum floor price for alcohol despite calls from NT health organisations and community leaders to keep the measure in place, which they said has been effective in helping to reduce alcohol-related harms across the Territory.

A man has been charged with murder over the death of a woman in Alice Springs on Sunday, NT Police said.

A 14-year-old boy has been charged for stealing a vehicle in Alice Springs after handing himself into the police station, NT Police said.

The federal and NT governments and the Aboriginal Peak Organisations have reached a new funding agreement all say will enhance service delivery in remote First Nations communities.

The CLP Government is expected to announce it will change current legislation to permit “probationary” corrections officers into the job without having to complete current training requirements, a move criticised by the union as raising serious safety issues for the public and officers, while also taking the “first step towards privatisation” of the NT’s jails.