The NT has recorded 84 cases of diphtheria since January 1 last year, NT Health said on Tuesday, with 66 of those cases involving skin sores, as incidents of the uncommon bacterial infection that can cause severe illness in unvaccinated individuals continues to grow.
NT Police have identified a 47-year-old man they say may have information about the disappearance of a five-year-old girl who went missing from Old Timers Camp in Alice Springs on Saturday around 11:30 pm, with police deploying helicopters, all-terrain vehicles and drones in hopes of locating the missing girl.
The 2026 Bassinthegrass festival will feature three homegrown music acts this year, with Territory artist competition winners TANG, RileyP, and DJ D’Moss set to perform at the NT’s largest music festival on May 16 at Mindil Beach.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government has announced another pre-budget funding commitment, this time committing $110 million for the new purpose-built Palmerston Secondary Special Education School, with the first proposed school designs made public on Monday.
A 44-year-old man was arrested by the Fugitive Task Force on Wednesday and charged in connection to historical child sex offences that allegedly occurred in the Greater Darwin area in 2008, NT Police said on Friday.
A 51-year-old Darwin woman is facing charges for allegedly defrauding a non-profit organisation that supports NDIS clients, NT Police said.
UPDATED: The Finocchiaro CLP Government has announced a $10 million “support package” for St John Ambulance to recruit more paramedics amid a crisis situation with the ambulance provider, which comes while the government has pledged to expedite negotiations on a new five-year service contract that expired in January, while the union says the latest cash injection is not near enough to fix the problems.
A 25-year-old man is facing several charges in relation to a fatal motorcycle crash last October that killed an 18-year-old female passenger after two motorcycles collided with a pig at Lambells Lagoon, NT Police said Thursday.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government has responded to calls for safer hospitals by pledging to provide 150 health care staff at Darwin and Palmerston Hospitals with personal duress alarms and $500,000 to fix the air conditioner at RDH, but has not said if it considered supplying pepper spray to the staff as well, amid ongoing violent incidents at the hospitals.
Alice Springs Town Council says Jacana Energy only contacted it this week to discuss electricity price increases for local government from July, while the Local Government Association NT said some remote councils are considering cutting family, health and youth programs amid the planned price increase, as Darwin Council also ponders cuts to services.
A $70 million federal loan will underpin a new 14-storey CDU student accommodation building for 350 students across from the university’s city Danala campus, with land provided by the NT Government, with construction now expected to start two years after the campus opened and seven years since it was first announced.
The number of NT public servants stating they were bullied or sexually harassed at work has increased significantly since 2023 along with a consistent fear to report, while the number of physical assaults on public servants has nearly doubled in two years, according to the latest NT Government People Matter Survey, which was quietly released by the government last week.
