Housing flood evacuees at the Howard Springs accommodation village last year cost taxpayers $12.7 million for just two months, with the total costs for repairs and cleaning hitting $1.3 million, including nearly $500,000 to replace broken windows and $175,000 to fix plumbing – figures the previous Labor government refused to disclose and famously downplayed as regular “wear and tear”.
Two motorcyclists were taken to hospital early Thursday morning after being struck by a silver hatchback in two separate alleged hit-and-runs, with the NT Police calling for the public’s help identifying the occupants of the car.
Parks Australia has been slapped with a $200,000 fine after the Commonwealth agency pleaded guilty to damaging a sacred site at Gunlom Falls during the construction of a pathway in 2019, the largest fine on record under sacred sites laws.
The CLP Government will provide Territorians with a look behind the books at what it calls a “grim” economic outlook caused by years of “financial chaos” next week at a special event with the NT’s Under Treasurer.
Singapore has given conditional approval for Sun Cable’s plan to import 1.75 gigawatts of solar power from the Northern Territory, a project valued at US$24 billion, which is scheduled to commence after 2035.
Any person found guilty of spitting at any worker will be subject to a mandatory three-month jail sentence, as part of the CLP’s anti-crime agenda to be debated in Parliament this week, that has been labelled a “recipe for injustice” by the Australian Human Rights Commission.
A 16-year-old male has been arrested for allegedly assaulting and attempting to rape a woman on a street in Woodroffe on Monday evening.
Large “disturbances” in the remote community of Jilkminggan on Monday saw a woman assaulted by up to six unknown offenders and a man tasered by police after he allegedly threatened officers with a claw hammer, NT Police said.
A 27-year-old man who cut off his electronic monitoring device before fleeing an Alice Springs “facility” he was ordered to reside at with the help of a female “associate” who also removed her EMD and drove the getaway car, has been rearrested over the weekend following a massive search effort, NT Police said.
NT Police are searching for a male who allegedly indecently assaulted a female in her 40s who was walking near Anzac Hill in Alice Springs around 6:30am on Sunday morning.
A woman involved in a single vehicle car crash at the entrance to a caravan park in Berry Springs last week has died from injuries sustained in the incident, sparking a police investigation into the circumstances of the crash.
Five males allegedly smashed the passenger window of a vehicle parked at McDonald’s in Katherine and threatened those inside with an “edged” weapon, NT Police said.
