Four females have been arrested, including one aged 11, in connection to an armed robbery in Bakewell last night that resulted in an employee receiving cuts to his hand after he was threatened by the group with a knife, while five other youths have been arrested in relation to a late-night property crime spree and theft of a golf buggy that was driven around the Palmerston Golf Course over the weekend.
UPDATED: NT Police have now arrested the 14-year-old male suspect who they allege was involved in a violent machete attack at the Yeperenye Shopping Centre in Alice Springs on Monday, that nearly resulted in an elderly man being struck with the machete, which follows the arrest and charging of a 17-year-old male earlier on Tuesday.
UPDATED: Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro claims the Prime Minister is “mucking us around” over her choice for the next administrator of the Northern Territory by not approving it for five months, while current Administrator Hugh Heggie has commenced “a series of farewell visits” and “parades” across the Territory and interstate ahead of his term ending on January 30.
Tenuous connections to famous people and events are not uncommon in family histories or, for that matter, the media, but there is a Northern Territory link to the Whitlam dismissal of 11 November 1975, although it was not apparent at the time, writes historian Dr Robyn Smith.
A fire broke out at Inpex’s Darwin LNG facility on Monday, the company has confirmed, but it said no one was harmed and “there has been no impact on the environment”.
Proposed reforms to federal environmental laws will fast-track controversial gas expansion projects in the Northern Territory without proper public consultation, federal Greens Leader Larissa Waters has warned while visiting Darwin, adding the reforms amount to deregulation of industry that will be particularly devastating for the Northern Territory.
Health support workers plan to hold protected industrial action within the next 10 days, which could seriously disrupt the operations of NT public hospitals, the union has warned.
Two Territorians suffered serious burns at work in separate incidents last month while refuelling petrol-powered pressure cleaners, prompting a safety alert from the workplace safety watchdog.
A 55-year-old man who was allegedly spreading counterfeit cash for gambling activities across the rural area has been arrested after NT Police said he used a fake ID to evade officers over an outstanding arrest warrant in Victoria in relation to commercial drug manufacturing charges.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government has expanded on a previous Labor government memorandum of understanding with Dutch company Vopak to “accelerate” construction of a carbon storage facility at Middle Arm that would see liquified carbon dioxide shipped into Darwin from local and overseas companies, but the project, if it proceeds, is still not expected until some time next decade.
SunCable has officially submitted an application for environmental approval to develop a second solar and battery precinct at Muckaty Station, which the company said is aimed at meeting increasing energy demands from data centres in the region, which will be in addition to its proposed solar farm near Elliot.
The Fair Work Commission has ordered Katherine Town Council to pay workers the performance wage rises they were denied since July 2022 by chief executive officer Ingrid Stonhill, which she had claimed was necessary due to the poor financial situation of the council at the time.
