A girl was threatened with a knife by one of three men who broke into her house in Alice Springs while she was alone, with police asking for witnesses but have not provided a description of the men who are still on the run.


A girl was threatened with a knife by one of three men who broke into her house in Alice Springs while she was alone, with police asking for witnesses but have not provided a description of the men who are still on the run.

A 42-year-old Humpty Doo man allegedly threatened the occupants of a rural property with a loaded gun on Tuesday night because he was angry about a Facebook post “regarding dogs wandering into yards”, NT Police have said.

The Barkly Regional Council will have to defend the sacking of an employee in the Federal Court after mediation between the two parties broke down, while the aggrieved former employee intends to subpoena the controversial Justitia Report and its author.

Police are calling for information regarding three stolen vehicles in Alice Springs which they said were being driven dangerously around town last night with the occupants allegedly throwing rocks at citizens and the police, while also trying to ram police vehicles.

A 45-year-old man from an unspecified “Daly River Region community” has handed himself into police in connection to a hit-and-run in Parap on Friday morning that left an unregistered car overturned and a cyclist seriously injured, NT Police said.

NT Police are searching for a firearm they allege was stolen from a vehicle in a carpark near the intersection of Standley Street and Paterson Street in Tennant Creek on Monday.

A man has been charged with murder over the death of his father at a Moil home on Saturday, NT Police said.

A man has been killed after being hit by two cars in Palmerston on Friday night, with the first driver not stopping, and the second allegedly testing positive for drugs, NT Police said.

Four children, aged 12 to 13-years-old, have been arrested following a crime spree overnight Wednesday around the Greater Darwin region that involved multiple stolen cars and ram raids to steal grog, NT Police said.

The NT Police has pledged to restructure its response to dealing with family and domestic violence callouts starting next week, a coronial inquest has heard.

NT Police are searching for a “young male” who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman on an Alice Springs street at 6am this morning.

Public funds used to employ private security staff should be redirected to police before somebody is killed, the union representing the Territory’s police have said, in the fall-out of an ABC Four Corners episode showing the guards committing acts of violence.