A man who was forced to climb on the roof of his ute after he got struck in a remote flooded river crossing was rescued by police.


A man who was forced to climb on the roof of his ute after he got struck in a remote flooded river crossing was rescued by police.

UPDATED: A man in Tennant Creek has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a child, NT Police said, and was charged on Friday.

A 20-year-old man who allegedly stole a motorbike before committing a number of crimes, including striking a police officer while ramming the gate of a Palmerston residence and later assaulting another officer, has been arrested, police said.

Serious Crime detectives are seeking the public’s help to identify two men in connection to a January 19 street fight in the Darwin CBD that involved an aggravated assault, NT Police said.

Self-proclaimed ‘zoosadist’ and convicted dog rapist and killer Adam Britton’s sentencing submissions proceedings have been adjourned until May.

A man and woman were attacked on Monday night on Smith Street with both suffering significant injuries requiring hospitalisation after a man in a red shirt reportedly assaulted the pair with an “edged weapon”, NT Police said.

Four people are dead after a Roper Highway crash while another person was struck and killed while walking on the Stuart Highway near Noonamah on Saturday night.

A woman was treated in Alice Springs Hospital for head and chest injuries after being assaulted by another woman in the street, NT Police said.

Offenders attached ratchet straps to a 4WD to rip the front doors off a roadhouse to steal alcohol, NT Police said.

A man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman who was found unconscious and later treated at Royal Darwin Hospital for a significant head injury, NT Police said.

Three people wearing balaclavas and armed with unspecified weapons robbed a Katherine service station, NT Police said.

A Supreme Court judge has dismissed a challenge over the legality of a minister granting a 40,000 megalitre water licence to Fortune Agribusiness for the remote Singleton Station, finding in part that the Territory Families Minister who made the decision in place of the Environment Minister, was able to give reasonable and rational consideration to the matter in the four days she took to make the decision.