The Fyles Government has unveiled its Alice Springs crime prevention plan that will involve the government providing “temporary accommodation” for unsupervised children and young people found out at night, but concerns remain over the voluntary nature of the program.
A major Western Australia engineering company that the NT Government selected as a joint-venture partner to build the long-delayed, taxpayer-funded $515 million Darwin ship lift project, has gone into administration raising questions about the future of the major project.
The Fyles Government has indicated it wants to change how schools are funded by scrapping the attendance-based model and instead fund schools based on enrolment numbers, a move that has been welcomed by Territory teachers.
The Northern Territory will be hotter than normal, with severe and extreme heat alerts being issued across the Territory by NT Health as a precaution for the next several days.
There is competing interest from all around the country to host a new National Basketball League team, including from Canberra and the Gold Coast – not just Darwin – the league commissioner has said, adding it had been an “incredibly expensive exercise” getting some teams to Darwin for September’s Blitz pre-season tournament.
The union representing the Northern Territory’s police officers says its members are “prepared to do whatever it takes”, including not working overtime, only attending to mandatory duties and claiming every hour they work, to send their message to the Fyles Government that they want a new consent agreement now.
NT Police are investigating the circumstances that led to a 12-year-old boy being hospitalised Monday afternoon, after he allegedly caused a disturbance at a northern suburbs shopping centre and was injured, which police are treating as a serious custody incident.
A 12-year-old boy has been charged for allegedly stealing a car on Saturday night, and for kicking a police officer who arrested him the next day, as well as three counts of breaching bail, NT Police have said.
A 44-year-old man who tested positive for methamphetamine was arrested after driving double the posted speed limit in a residential area around 8:45am Saturday, NT Police said, while two other vehicles were seized for engaging in an unrelated alcohol-fuelled street race over the weekend.
NT Police are looking for a Caucasian man dressed in a black shirt, shorts and shoes who they believe has information about a suspicious fire that occurred on Cavenagh Street in Darwin at 6:30am on June 26.
The number of reports of Territory kids who were allegedly abused or neglected surged to more than 30,500 last financial year, a new report from the Children’s Commissioner shows.
UPDATED: A group of youths allegedly broke into a police officer’s home in Katherine on Wednesday night and assaulted the female officer before fleeing, sources have told the NT Independent, which police did not report, with a similar incident occurring on Thursday night where a woman was assaulted by an unknown man in her home.
