A 46-year-old man from Knuckey Lagoon has died more than a week after being hospitalised with life-threatening injuries sustained during an alleged assault, in an incident that was not previously disclosed.

NT Police have busted a 53-year-old man at a post office in Palmerston with allegedly “large” quantities of meth and cash believed to be obtained from drug trafficking, but the actual amount of each was not disclosed for unknown reasons.

A potentially drug-addled teen who allegedly broke into a 12-year-old girl’s Palmerston bedroom in the middle of the night to demand cash has been arrested by police.

A female teenager was allegedly punched in the face by a 21-year-old man in an “unprovoked attack” onboard a bus from Casuarina, Wednesday evening, NT Police said.

Police are searching for a suspect who allegedly robbed a taxi driver in Woodroffe nearly two months ago. It was not explained why police are only searching for the man in his 20s now.

A family of two adults and five children who were stranded in remote East Arnhem Land for nearly four days after their vehicle became bogged have been rescued by police who praised them for taking proper actions that helped with the rescue mission.

Fifteen people from across the Northern Territory and Queensland have been arrested and charged for preying on children online over the last three months, as part of a joint operation between the AFP and NT Police.

A man caught between two buildings after attempting to scale them, another man who shut down a street after climbing seven stories and a teen driver who survived a car rollover in the rural area were all part of a busy long weekend for St John Ambulance crews across Darwin.

A 24-year-old man has been arrested and charged with allegedly raping an Alice Springs woman last weekend in his home, NT Police said in a statement.

NT Police are asking for the public’s help to identify a man who allegedly assaulted a woman along Stuart Highway in Alice Springs Monday night following a failed holdup attempt.