NT Police have received another report involving a suspicious white van in Palmerston, this time with a man allegedly approaching a child on foot at Sirius Park, Woodroffe on Friday.


NT Police have received another report involving a suspicious white van in Palmerston, this time with a man allegedly approaching a child on foot at Sirius Park, Woodroffe on Friday.

NT Police are warning of a suspicious white van that allegedly followed school children along Harrison Court in Woodroffe this week and are seeking the public’s help to find it.

Two women have been charged over an alleged theft of a significant amount of company funds in 2018 from an unnamed Darwin business, NT Police said.

An alleged Darwin drink-driver who was clocked going 45km/h over the posted speed limit along Bagot Road while weaving in and out of traffic on Wednesday afternoon has been arrested by police.

A father previously convicted of drink-driving nine times torched his ex-partner’s vehicle – complete with their daughter’s possessions in it – after she would not let him borrow it for the day, the NT Supreme Court has heard.

Police are investigating separate suspicious fire incidents in Palmerston playgrounds and at Tennant Creek High School overnight.

The youth who smashed a CCTV screen and threw part of it at a judge may be suffering from a rare condition which leads him to believe he “can fly” and “see through walls” as well as having graphic violent fantasies, a court had heard.

A 30-year-old man has been charged in Alice Springs after allegedly repeatedly ramming his LandCruiser into a woman’s car before dragging her from the vehicle and physically assaulting her, then forcing her into his car and driving off, NT Police have said.

NT Police are investigating an alleged border control breach and conducting contact tracing measures after four people drove through a border control point coming from Queensland into the Northern Territory on Monday.

The Alice Springs Local Court has convicted and fined a Queensland based builder for hindering and ignoring an NT WorkSafe investigation over an incident that seriously injured two workers at Ambalindum Station in Central Australia two years ago.

A paedophile babysitter who molested two young girls, including one brazenly just metres away from where the child’s mother was cooking dinner, has been jailed for eight months.

NT Police say they have interviewed a 12-year-old and a 13-year-old girl over the fire that destroyed Tennant Creek’s only grocery store, and are investigating the involvement of an 11-year-old boy, but have not said if the girls will be charged, only they will be “subject to the provisions of the Youth Justice Act 2005”.