A man was found dead in a storm drain along the Stuart Highway at Berrimah this morning, NT Police said.


A man was found dead in a storm drain along the Stuart Highway at Berrimah this morning, NT Police said.

A man has been killed after being hit by a car during a fight at Timber Creek overnight, while two other people were flown to Royal Darwin Hospital in serious conditions with stab wounds, NT Police said.

An 11-year-old boy was killed on a mango farm at Darwin River district yesterday when the quad bike he was riding on with a man crashed into a tree, NT Police said.

A woman has been charged for allegedly assaulting a paramedic who was treating her in Alice Springs yesterday afternoon, NT Police said.

A 26-year-old man was assaulted during a Tennant Creek home invasion after he confronted two male youths, one armed with an “edged weapon”, who broke into his house and stole his car, NT Police said.

The NT Police’s ongoing New Zealand officer recruitment campaign has that country’s top cop asking why the NT couldn’t have given him a ‘heads up’ phone call before the latest drive, that saw nearly 40 Kiwi officers sign-up earlier this year, but he said many have stated they “lack the support from bosses” here in “pretty harsh” conditions and are looking to return home.

A man was killed Wednesday afternoon in a two-vehicle collision involving a car and a truck on the Stuart Highway at the Angliss Road intersection at Knuckey Lagoon, NT Police said.

An 18-year-old female passenger on a motorcycle was killed when two motorcycles collided with feral pigs 19km east of the Stuart Highway intersection on Arnhem Highway Monday night, NT Police said.

A man allegedly repeatedly punched his partner in the face and then stabbed her while they were riding on a public bus in Palmerston, NT Police said.

A woman was killed Saturday night after being struck by a vehicle on the Stuart Highway in Pinelands, NT Police said.

A drunk taxi driver carrying a passenger was one of four drivers caught with a medium-range blood-alcohol reading last weekend, as part of a targeted NT Police traffic operation that saw 165 drivers tested through two random breath testing stations in Darwin and Palmerston, police said.

A 36-year-old woman who allegedly lit a car on fire on Kempe Street in Alice Springs on Monday afternoon has been charged with vehicle and arson offences, NT Police said.