An inmate who escaped from the Holtze Youth Prison yesterday remains on the run, with NT Police appealing to the public for help to locate them.
Police investigate Alice Springs prisoner death
NT Police are investigating the death of a 35-year-old male prisoner in the Alice Springs Prison yesterday afternoon.
‘A bad look’: Deputy Chief Minister failed to publicly disclose family connection to gas company subsidiary
Mining and Energy Minister Gerard Maley did not publicly disclose that his sister-in-law works for the company he and his government colleagues helped arrange a special land deal for that could see a massive data centre in the Darwin rural area built, the ABC reported Tuesday, while the Chief Minister has remained silent over the failure to publicly disclose.
New Unions NT president elected
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation NT boss Heidi Crisp has been elected unopposed as the Unions NT president.
Teen speared in back during armed disturbances in remote community over weekend
NT Police are investigating multiple armed disturbances in Ngukurr over the weekend that saw a 14-year-old boy airlifted out of the community Saturday afternoon after being speared in the back, police said.
Four youths on the run after bail facility escape
Police are asking the public for help to find four youths who escaped from the Barkly Bail Facility in Tennant Creek on Saturday.
Police searching for 9-year-old who allegedly stole cigarettes, threatened employee in group robbery
Two 13-year-olds have been arrested for their alleged role in a Palmerston service station robbery on Sunday afternoon, while police continue to search for a nine-year-old who allegedly threatened an employee with a pair of scissors and made off with “a quantity of cigarettes”, NT Police said.
Opinion: Regressive changes to water laws could undermine Indigenous rights
The Northern Territory’s new water laws risk handing greater control of the Territory’s scarce water resources to commercial interests while undermining Aboriginal water rights and environmental safeguards, argue Erin O’Donnell, Professor Marcia Langton and Sue Jackson.
Boy charged for allegedly spitting at officer
A 12-year-old boy in Tennant Creek has been charged with assault and damage to property after allegedly spitting in the face of a police officer who was talking to him because they were concerned for his welfare, and then throwing a rock that shattered the rear windscreen of a police vehicle, NT Police said.
Letter to the editor: Give Pearl land to expand aged-care services
The NT Government should allow Southern Cross Care to expand its Pearl aged-care facility onto adjoining public land in Fannie Bay, rather than requiring it to compete with private developers, as the Territory faces a shortage of aged-care places, writes Sonja Pastor.
Opinion: Canberra keeps handing the NT power it doesn’t actually have
Despite the NT’s extraordinary dependence on Canberra, its latest National Cabinet “win” reveals a striking parallel: the Commonwealth has not used its power to stop Aboriginal disadvantage GST money being spent elsewhere and now it’s not using its power to stop renewable policy being bent to accommodate gas-powered AI data centres, writes Justin Tutty.
Pedestrian killed in Berrimah car collision; three-vehicle Coolalinga crash probed
A man was struck and killed by a white Toyota Hilux while crossing Berrimah Road around 9:30pm Wednesday night, NT Police said, as the investigation into the crash and the man’s identity continues, which occurred just before a separate three-vehicle crash at Coolalinga that trapped a man inside his vehicle.