EDITORIAL: Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro’s response to the ICAC’s findings that a “senior public officer” engaged in improper conduct is now bordering on what the ICAC’s delegate found the public officer engaged in, namely “negligence and incompetence”.
A 31-year-old woman has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing her partner in Darwin on Friday night, NT Police said.
A 45-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly using a car to run over her partner in Alice Springs, NT Police said.
The Northern Territory’s 2024-25 mango season has yielded 3.9 million trays, producing 51.75 per cent of Australia’s mangoes, with 2,000 local, national and international workers helping NT mango businesses pick and pack this season.
A solution is urgently required in the stand-off between the CLP and the judges of the Local Court regarding the proposal for the court to sit at the prisons, writes Eric Withnall.
Faced with massively declining student enrolment numbers, budget deficits, staff sackings, departmental funding cuts and a massive bill for a Darwin city campus it can’t afford, Charles Darwin University vice-chancellor Scott Bowman announced on Friday that CDU will “establish a London-based study centre” with the aim of “exploring transnational education” to save the beleaguered university.
A woman is in a critical condition in Royal Darwin Hospital after her partner allegedly stabbed her in the stomach, back, and legs in her home in a remote community, while police had to be brought in to quell a fight that broke out between the couple’s families outside the medical clinic, NT Police said.
Darwin Private Hospital operator Healthscope will extend maternity services for an extra seven weeks, after initially ordering a mid-April shutdown, with 45 of 114 expectant families estimated to now give birth at the facility, the NT Government said.
The first lots of the Holtze land release will hit the market soon, offering first-home buyers property starting at $189,000.
A group of males “attempting to start” a Toyota Landcruiser in the staff car park at the Darwin Airport on Wednesday evening kicked off a long night of stolen vehicle action for NT Police, that saw a police vehicle rammed and projectiles thrown at officers.
The CLP Government has announced the latest round of a grant program which provides up to $3 million to co-fund projects that improve exploration efforts, assist in discovering and developing resources, and add to “geoscientific knowledge gaps”, across the Territory.
Aerial surveys of green turtle nests showed a decline in nesting sites on Croker Island since the 1990s which has prompted further study of a range of species, a Charles Darwin University researcher has said.
