A 46-year-old woman has been arrested after allegedly inflicting head injuries on a female family member in Palmerston yesterday, NT Police said.


A 46-year-old woman has been arrested after allegedly inflicting head injuries on a female family member in Palmerston yesterday, NT Police said.

A 12-year-old boy has been arrested and charged after allegedly swinging a knife at another student during an altercation at Katherine High School, NT Police said.

A man has been arrested after his partner died after being found unresponsive in the front yard of their Palmerston home overnight, NT Police said.

Two women were taken to hospital with head injuries following a “large disturbance” in Tennant Creek Sunday afternoon, that involved some members of the crowd armed with “various weapons”, NT Police said, with investigations continuing and no arrests made yet.

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly throwing an unknown object at a truck on the Katherine River Bridge on Thursday, NT Police said.

Four youths wearing hoodies and armed with “edged weapons” are on the run after breaking into an Alice Springs home overnight, threatening a male resident and stealing his car keys and wallet, before fleeing in a red 2017 Holden Commodore, NT Police said.

More than 2100 alcohol and drug road tests were administered in Alice Springs over the past week as part of an extensive police traffic blitz during the Red Centre Nats weekend that resulted in dozens of traffic charges, 160 speeding fines issued and five vehicles seized for hooning offences, NT Police said.

A 13-year-old boy has been arrested after two vehicles were stolen in Alice Springs overnight, the NT Police said.

A 49-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly striking another man in the head with an unspecified blunt object, directly across from the Tennant Creek Police Station, NT Police said.

A 36-year-old unlicensed man who was allegedly driving dangerously around Leanyer on Thursday afternoon while high on meth was apprehended by a police dog after attempting to flee police on foot, NT Police said.

One person is already facing charges for obtaining pepper spray while ineligible, NT Police said Tuesday morning, with a search on for three others who also should not have been sold the spray on the first day of the 12-month OC spray trial.

A 40-year-old woman who collapsed and died at a Katherine business Monday afternoon is suspected to have suffered a snake bite to her ankle, NT Police said.