UPDATED: NT Police have identified three male children, aged 10, 10 and 11, who police allege threw rocks at The Ghan as it was travelling through Alice Springs on Monday, smashing more than 20 windows and forcing the train to terminate its run at Alice to assess the damage.
NT Police are seeking the public’s help to locate a missing 45-year-old woman named Susan, who was last seen Sunday afternoon in Palmerston after leaving a residence.
NT Police have charged a 44-year-old Alice Springs man with historical sexual offences against two women, including one count of rape, following an investigating that took nearly two years.
A man has been charged for allegedly assaulting a woman on a Darwin Harbour sunset cruise and later assaulting another woman in a vehicle outside a hotel at the Darwin Waterfront on Friday evening, NT Police said.
Latest highlights include the NT now ranked third for doing business according to a Business Council Australia report; Seafarms to advance large-scale prawn farming after acquiring Project Sea Dragon; and the Federal government’s $1 million grant program to boost tourism in Central Australia.
A federal government employee, his wife, and the director of a Darwin building company have been charged over the alleged fraudulent awarding of Defence Department contracts worth about $71 million to the building company, and a subsidiary company owned by the co-conspirators, the Australian Federal Police has said.
EDITORIAL: We simply cannot afford to build a billion dollar Ship Lift facility for a bunch of billionaires to profit from while the rest of us pay for it over the next 50 years – when will Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro stand up for Territorians and shirtfront the Paspaley Group over this?
The future of Yipirinya School in Alice Springs remains uncertain as it faces a significant decline in reported student enrolment numbers and mounting debt, which comes as the government released a redacted independent investigation report from last year, that raised questions around suspicious enrolment figures claimed by the previous principal and spending irregularities.
Owning a dangerous animal in the Northern Territory will be made easier under proposed regulations introduced by the Finocchiaro CLP Government, after one man told them they should let more people get involved in pet crocodile ownership.
A woman in her 40s was struck in the head by a wooden sculpture while working at an Alice Springs art gallery on Wednesday afternoon, NT Police said, after a woman entered the shop and damaged several items.
Foodbank SA & NT has officially opened a permanent Food Hub site in Katherine, aiming to enhance local food security and improve disaster preparedness within the region.
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.
