Prime Video has announced that award-winning global hit show Deadloch season two will be filmed in Darwin and other areas later this year, as the detectives in the show investigate how the bodies of two “Top End icons” were murdered, in what has been billed as a “sweatier, stickier investigation” than season one.
Twelve people have been arrested, mostly young teens, following multiple stolen car chases across the Darwin area on Sunday morning, NT Police said, including one incident that saw the police’s dog operations unit vehicle rammed by car thieves during a pursuit.
Four off-duty police officers were allegedly robbed and assaulted by a group of 20 youths early Sunday morning, NT Police said, while it has been reported the Police Commissioner is considering another curfew for the town following the incident.
The latest business highlights include Tennant Mining set to resume ‘large-scale’ gold mining in the NT as the Nobles Gold Mine Project’s construction begins, the NT Government has awarded ADG Engineers Darwin $330,000 for the design and upgrade of Cox Peninsula Road, and Reece has opened a new branch in Berrimah. Also making resource news, Central Petroleum extending the Arafura gas agreement, plus more.
A child was killed and 10 people were injured in a car crash near Kalkarindji that police believe involved alcohol and a large number of unrestrained passengers, NT Police said.
The NT government has declared the controversial buffel grass a weed, and while the decision has been welcomed by an environmental group, the pastoralists’ peak body has said there are better ways to manage the grass than by declaring it a weed.
Today’s national news includes Australia scaling back RIMPAC participants, PM Albanese downplaying rate hike fears, Australia risking gas shortage by 2027, Australia to be setting up secret data centres, and a worker dying after being trapped in a silo on S.A. property.
The remains of a 12-year-old girl who went missing while swimming in a creek in the remote community of Palumpa have been located, NT Police said, following an extensive day-and-a-half search amid fears she had been killed by a crocodile.
Researchers have captured on video amorous adult blue whales in courtship, as well as a mother nursing its calf, on the north coast of Timor Leste, revealing previously unknown behaviour a Charles Darwin University academic has said.
A new Darwin nightspot has opened with a legendary name that has been missing for more than a decade from the scene, with Sweethearts officially opening on Thursday on Mitchell Street as part of a multi-million dollar makeover.
Dustin’s has a newly arrived grey 2022 Jeep Wrangler JL MY23 Unlimited Overland Hardtop with a 3.6-litre 6-cylinder gasoline engine and an 8-speed automatic transmission. The 4WD vehicle has an odometer reading of 16,972 km.
NT Police are searching for a man armed with an “edged weapon” after he allegedly accosted two men in a CBD carpark on Thursday morning and attacked the pair before making off on a stolen scooter.
