NT Police are investigating a fatal crash south of Alice Springs on Sunday morning that claimed the life of a 52-year-old man who was riding with a group of motorcyclists in Deep Well.


NT Police are investigating a fatal crash south of Alice Springs on Sunday morning that claimed the life of a 52-year-old man who was riding with a group of motorcyclists in Deep Well.

NT Police and Fire and Rescue Services are investigating the cause of a major structure fire in Humpty Doo overnight that saw a shipping container, two buses, two caravans, a car and a shade structure fully engulfed in flames.

Following the previous Labor government’s move to arm public housing and bus safety officers with pepper spray last year, the current Finocchiaro CLP Government has moved to give them guns, as part of a plan to quickly train those officers and police auxiliary members as new “Police Public Safety Officers” to “target antisocial behaviour in public places”.

The Jovi Boys gang and their associates ram-raided the Peppimenarti Social Club gates, injuring a woman before ransacking the premises while patrons and staff secured themselves in a store room late last month, however NT Police did not attend until two days later, and will not say why the attack was not made public.

A man has been charged after a stand-off with the Territory Response Group in Parap on Monday, NT Police said.

An unknown male who slashed another man’s face early Sunday morning with an ‘edged weapon’ after he refused demands for cigarettes and money remains on the run, NT Police said, while calling for anyone with information to come forward.

Three people were killed in two separate crashes on Saturday, NT Police said, including one crash near Beswick that involved four occupants of a single vehicle, resulting in the death of a 14-year-old girl and a 47-year-old man.

UPDATED: NT Police are warning the public to “remain vigilant” following the second reported case of a woman sexually assaulted while she slept by an unknown intruder, with the most recent incident involving a woman waking up to a man in a balaclava with his hand over her mouth on Wednesday night.

The NT Police are appealing to the public for information following three incidents in Wadeye on Sunday, including a vehicle swerving at police and a man throwing projectiles at officers on their own compound.

A Parap woman woke to find a naked male “indecently assaulting” her at her home on Tuesday night, NT Police said, with the perpetrator still on the run.

A Territory police officer has been arrested in Alice Springs and charged with two counts of rape in relation to alleged sexual assaults that occurred in 2024, NT Police said.

A 40-year-old man was killed Monday in an “off road buggy” crash on a property in Girraween, NT Police said, but two children involved were unhurt in the fatal crash.