A massive fire that burned for days at a government medical supplies warehouse in Berrimah was caused by a “malfunction of an electrical item”, investigators said on Friday.


A massive fire that burned for days at a government medical supplies warehouse in Berrimah was caused by a “malfunction of an electrical item”, investigators said on Friday.

Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has showed no contrition for the problems facing the NT Police force and downplayed the results of a damning survey that found 80 per cent of police respondents had no confidence in him, in his first media interview in more than five months.

The inquest into the death of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker, who was shot by a NT Police officer Constable Zach Rolfe in 2019, will begin on Monday and run for approximately three months. Here is a draft list of witnesses.

A 32-year-old man was arrested in Pinelands on Thursday after Drug and Organised Crime members stopped a vehicle being driven in a dangerous manner along Stuart Highway around 5 pm, NT Police said.

NT Police are investigating “a number” of unlawful entries across the Greater Darwin region overnight, after a car was stolen in Alawa and later used to break into two service stations and steal liquor from a licenced premises.

The Fyles Government has rejected calls for a parliamentary inquiry into the ongoing crisis in NT Police, saying it is currently undertaking a financial and structural reorganisation of the police force that will “get to the bottom” of the problems.

A 38-year-old man who allegedly exposed himself to a child near the Todd River and spoke to a “number of children” in an “indecent manner” last month has been arrested and charged, NT Police said.

SEE THE LIST: The Supreme Court witness list for senior Labor figure Kent Rowe’s child sex offence trial has been revealed, and it includes prominent local business people and families, other Territory Labor Party figures, the Deputy Chief Minister’s brother, a local councillor and more.

A woman was killed after she was run over while lying on the Stuart Hwy in Alice Springs, NT Police has said.

A person has died in a single vehicle crash near Douglas Daly, Northern Territory Police has said.

A 22-year-old male is in custody after he allegedly indecently assaulted a woman at a Katherine shopping centre at 8am this morning, NT Police said.

Eight kids aged between 11 and 16-years old have been arrested over an alleged attempted break-in on Friday night in Alice Springs, NT Police have said.