UPDATED: Police are investigating after a severed human leg was found along the Stuart Highway near Coolalinga Tuesday morning and have not ruled out that the individual missing part of their leg may still be alive.


UPDATED: Police are investigating after a severed human leg was found along the Stuart Highway near Coolalinga Tuesday morning and have not ruled out that the individual missing part of their leg may still be alive.

Support for a no confidence vote in Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker continues to grow amongst the NT Police rank-and-file, with half of all police regions now confirmed as calling for a vote, while the union representing officers continues to stifle the will of its members.

Two 12-year-old girls have been arrested in connection to a service station robbery Sunday night on the Stuart Highway that saw tobacco and cash stolen, NT Police said.

The NT Police’s ongoing crackdown on anti-social behaviour has targeted Karama, Nightcliff, Casuarina and Palmerston CBD in its latest sweep, tipping out 175 litres of grog, taking 38 people into protective custody and “moving on” 320 people, police said.

Another man involved in a hit-and-run in the NT over recent weeks has been arrested in connection to last week’s Alice Springs fatality, NT Police have said.

Police have arrested a man over a hit-and-run in Darwin city on Friday morning.

Officers in a fourth Territory police region have voted for the NT Police Association to hold a Territory-wide vote of confidence in Commissioner Jamie Chalker and Deputy Commissioner Murray Smalpage, sources have told the NT Independent.

NT Fire and Rescue Services have contained a mysterious “chemical spill” on McDonald Road in Alice Springs, police have said, after a five-hour ordeal.

The NT Coroner’s inquest into the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker by Constable Zach Rolfe will consider whether the police investigation was “compromised or impaired”, whether NT Police officers are receiving adequate training, and whether Constable Rolfe “used drugs that impacted his conduct”, a court list has revealed.

A 25-year-old Alice Springs woman is dead following an alleged hit-and-run last night on Gap Road, as NT Police are calling for anyone with information to come forward.

NT Police have arrested a man in relation to the fatal hit-and-run in Timber Creek last month that killed a 19-year-old man on an empty stretch of highway.

A fire in the mechanics workshop of the Thamarrurr Development Corporation on Saturday night caused structural damage, NT Police said, in the latest incident at the troubled community that has been the centre of unrest for months.