A 21-year-old woman has been charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a passenger following a fatal crash near Yulara on Friday.


A 21-year-old woman has been charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a passenger following a fatal crash near Yulara on Friday.

NT Police have charged a 17-year-old male with murder, making him the second person to be charged over the death of an 18-year-old who was found dead on a Palmerston driveway early Saturday morning.

UPDATED: The name of the 20-year-old man who has been charged with murder in connection to the death of an 18-year-old who was discovered early Saturday morning in a Palmerston driveway, has been revealed.

Police have launched Operation Lune to monitor the activities of members of the Mongols motorbike gang who are gathering in Alice Springs in preparation for their national run, while the alleged national president of the gang was arrested in Darwin Tuesday morning the media has reported.

A Berry Springs man who found an unexploded WWII bomb in the Manton Dam area on Monday took home the explosive, forcing bomb experts to attend his home to detonate the device in a nearby block of land.

NT Police have arrested a 15-year-old male they allege stole multiple vehicles used in a series of break and enters in Alice Springs with other youths, ultimately leading police on a pursuit at one point that was called off after full cans of beer were allegedly hurled at officers from the vehicle.

UPDATE: A 20-year-old man has been detained by police in connection to the death of an 18-year-old whose body was discovered early Saturday morning on the driveway of a Palmerston home, NT Police said.

The NT Police investigations into fatal crashes in Katherine and Yulara on Friday highlighted the lack of seatbelts as contributing factors in the deaths of three people who were ejected from their vehicles upon impact.

Spit hoods will be banned for minors in police custody, the Police Minister Kate Worden announced in a statement on Friday morning.

NT Police have closed their investigation into the discovery of a human skull north of Katherine, stating that the remains were from a “historic traditional burial”.

A 41-year-old Alice Springs man was charged by police after allegedly driving a defective and unregistered ute at his female partner early Wednesday morning while she walked along a footpath on Gap Road, NT Police said.

The ongoing saga of a 12-year-old girl who was allegedly assaulted on a bus and at the Casuarina bus exchange by three adults on Sunday evening has taken another turn, with police arresting and charging a new character in the drama.