NT Police say they have arrested a man whose parole they revoked last week, a man who had been sentenced in 2013 to a non-parole period of nine years in prison for his part in an infamous gang rape at gunpoint of two European backpackers in Alice Springs.
The Territory’s former top traffic cop will contest a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice relating to a traffic matter.
Litchfield Council has admitted that after dramatically dropping the cost to Southport residents for sealing six streets, it does not know how the revised figure was calculated.
The Darwin Basketball Association Board could not explain at its annual general meeting why it considered the association solvent given a warning from auditors at the end of last year that there was significant doubt about its capacity to continue as a going concern.
The Director of the Centre for Public Integrity has described as “absurd” a decision by the Acting Independent Commissioner Against Corruption to suppress the name of a former Supreme Court judge she briefed to oversee the continuing investigation of the then-Labor government’s misuse of public resources during the 2020 general election.
Occupants in an allegedly stolen car threw rocks at Strike Force Viper members in a police vehicle before ramming another police vehicle, NT Police said.
Hospitality NT chief executive Alex Bruce has announced he will be Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro’s new chief of staff.
Members voted to adopt the Darwin Basketball Association financial statements for the previous two years under the threat the association could not continue to trade if they did not and because the Northern Territory government was withholding sport voucher money as...
The Darwin Salties basketball team has announced it has left the Queensland-based NBL1 North competition saying it is financially unviable for the club to pay for its opposition teams’ travel costs, and further said the club’s ability to negotiate with another league was limited due to the loss of its general manager after only ten months in the role.
The first sitting of the Northern Territory Parliament under the new Finocchiaro Government will begin on October 15, and run for two weeks, with the government saying it will introduce its promised bail reforms, decrease the age of criminal responsibility, and bring in minimum mandatory sentences for assaulting frontline workers in the first week
A 49-year-old man has been charged after allegedly threatening to kill a man in an Alice Springs shopping centre, then attempting to strike him with an “edged weapon”, NT Police said.
Darwin Salties basketball team’s general manager Matt Nason has quit the club roughly 10 months into the role, while Basketball Queensland would not comment on whether the team would remain in the NBL1 North league next season, with questions over the club’s solvency having been previously raised after it was given roughly $1.25 million combined from the NT Government and two NT basketball organisations in less than two-and-a-half years.
