NT Police have ramped up their search for the driver of a silver Ford Falcon who allegedly struck a five-year-old on Monday afternoon and fled the scene along Vanderlin Drive.


NT Police have ramped up their search for the driver of a silver Ford Falcon who allegedly struck a five-year-old on Monday afternoon and fled the scene along Vanderlin Drive.

Two people have been arrested and an estimated $100,000 worth of cannabis and a small amount of meth has been intercepted on its way into an Indigenous community in West Arnhem, NT Police say.

NT Police are searching for a man with knowledge of an incident that saw an Alice Springs woman engaged in a “short conversation” by an unidentified male before he began to masturbate outside an East Side property on Monday afternoon.

A 13-year-old boy has been apprehended after he allegedly kicked and spat at NT Police Officers in Tennant Creek, following a group of youths allegedly damaging cars and a service station with sticks and rocks over the weekend.

NT Police Association president Paul McCue says mandatory drug and alcohol testing in the Territory is “inevitable” but likely won’t be implemented before 2022, when a new collective agreement is finalised.

UPDATED: NT Police have released CCTV footage of a “vehicle of interest” that was travelling along Vanderlin Drive in Karama around the time a five-year-old boy was struck by a hit-and-run driver at a pedestrian crossing and sent to hospital.

A Darwin man who left his teenaged partner with a fractured skull and severe brain injury when he hit her twice with a plank of wood in a fit of rage has been sentenced to prison.

The NT Police Association says it’s unlikely Police Auxiliary Liquor Inspectors will be brought into Darwin bottle shops to oversee new alcohol purchasing rules introduced last week, citing a lack of government resources.

The 52-year-old man who sustained serious burns in the Parap apartment explosion last Wednesday has passed away, NT Police confirmed.

A 20-year-old Alice Springs man suffered cuts and bruising to the head after three unidentified offenders allegedly broke into his residence last night and struck him with a glass bottle, NT Police said.

Thirteen people in Borroloola have been charged for alcohol and drug-related offenses following an NT Police traffic crackdown over the rodeo weekend, police say.

A woman whose reckless driving caused a car to roll over and pitch end-to-end, causing he death of a father of four last year, has been jailed following a five-day trial heard in the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.