A teenage boy was arrested after allegedly threatening an employee of a Katherine service station with a knife, and robbing the business, NT Police said.


A teenage boy was arrested after allegedly threatening an employee of a Katherine service station with a knife, and robbing the business, NT Police said.

There were more than 100 people fighting, some with weapons, in Wadeye on Sunday, with one man hit in the leg with a crossbow bolt, NT police said.

Three teenagers and a 12-year-old have been arrested for breaking into a Tennant Creek house, with one alleged offender still on the run, while the day before, two other men who are still on the run, broke into the same house and stole cigarettes and alcohol, NT Police said.

UPDATED: Three of the five people involved in a two-vehicle crash on the Arnhem Highway remain in critical condition, with two children also injured, following the incident that occurred about 30km from the Stuart Highway turnoff at noon on Friday, NT Police said.

Three teenagers have been arrested after allegedly stealing a wallet and a moped off an employee of a Karama business, NT Police said.

EXCLUSIVE: The Mayor of Alice Springs was threatened with an axe outside his next door neighbour’s home on Christmas Eve, sources have told the NT Independent, in an incident which comes amid a fraught situation for the troubled town, where crime has become the focus of national media attention and federal intervention.

A man has been charged after allegedly breaking into a house early in January and attempting to rape a sleeping woman, NT Police said.

UPDATED: Two men and two women have been arrested after allegedly stealing alcohol from a business, with one man alleged to have assaulted a security guard at the business, NT Police said.

Three people have been hospitalised amid ongoing unrest in Wadeye over the weekend, which has reportedly seen up to 300 people fighting in the community with homemade weapons and vehicles, NT Police said.

Police had to shoot crocodiles to allow them to recover a ute with a man’s body inside from a creek at Dundee Downs on Friday afternoon, after the vehicle crashed into the water near a boat ramp on Thursday afternoon, NT Police said.

Alice Springs businesses including a childcare centre went into a snap lockdown Friday after violent fighting erupted on the streets with weapons, which led to one man reportedly hit in the head with an axe and police Tasering another man, in a scenario NT Police described only as a “large disturbance” suspected to have been caused by payback over an alleged killing last year.

A male pedestrian was killed after being hit by a road train on the Stuart Hwy on Thursday night, NT Police.