The NT Police have officially concluded the victim identification process following the head-on collision on the Stuart Highway earlier this month, but are still investigating the cause of the deadly crash.


The NT Police have officially concluded the victim identification process following the head-on collision on the Stuart Highway earlier this month, but are still investigating the cause of the deadly crash.

UPDATED: A prisoner who escaped from the Barkly Work Camp and was believed to be headed to Alice Springs has been caught in Tennant Creek, NT Police said.

A large group of males armed with various weapons were discovered concealing themselves in bushland Sunday afternoon as they approached the community of Wadeye, NT Police said, with the group allegedly attacking officers with rocks, window louvres and at one point an arrow was allegedly shot at police when officers attempted to disperse them.

A woman is being treated at Royal Darwin Hospital after being assaulted by a group of people she knew near the Woolworths supermarket in Darwin city on Thursday night, NT Police said.

A 27-year-old Alice Springs man has been arrested and charged for allegedly targeting women with thousands of sexually threatening phone calls, NT Police said, while urging more victims to contact them.

NT Police are calling for anyone in Katherine with video of last Thursday’s dangerous driving incident that saw up to seven youths tear around town in a stolen vehicle to contact them, as police seek to “actively identify and locate the remaining youths involved” after arresting two youths over the weekend.

A 35-year-old man has been arrested over the alleged sexual assault of a woman in Palmerston overnight after he was tracked through the CBD using CCTV, NT Police said.

Two boys, aged 13 and 15, have been charged for their alleged involvement in a reckless driving spree involving a group of up to seven youths in a stolen car in Katherine on Thursday night, NT Police said.

A 49-year-old Alice Springs man has been charged with manslaughter for his alleged role in a fatal road incident that saw a male pedestrian killed by a vehicle in Darwin in February 2024, but the man charged was not driving the vehicle, NT Police said.

Five people are now confirmed to have died following a two-vehicle head-on collision on the Stuart Highway on Wednesday, with NT Police calling for witnesses to the crash after alleging a speeding ute had been overtaking dangerously in the minutes before the collision.

Three Aboriginal community police officers have filed a class action in the Federal Court against the Northern Territory Government alleging they were subjected to systemic racial discrimination and racial vilification while serving in the Northern Territory Police.

A pedestrian was killed overnight in Moil and the driver returned a roadside test indicating the possible presence of an illicit drug, NT Police said.