A 51-year-old man has been charged with drugs and weapons offences after the bus he was travelling on from Katherine to Palmerston was stopped by police and searched by a drug-sniffing dog who allegedly found meth, marijuana and knives on the man, NT Police said.
Fire and rescue crews are at the site of a road train that caught on fire Tuesday morning following a crash on the Arnhem Highway east of the Adelaide River bridge.
A 16-year-old boy has died following a single-vehicle rollover north of Katherine this morning after a series of alleged vehicle thefts overnight, NT Police said.
A roadside drug test that allegedly returned a positive result for methamphetamine led to the seizure of seven firearms, ammunition and drugs in Katherine, NT Police said.
A man has died after a head on collision on the Victoria Highway near Timber Creek on Wednesday night, NT Police said.
NT Police say an investigation into the death of a 24-year-old disabled Warlpiri man who died after being restrained by two plainclothes police officers at an Alice Springs supermarket last May will not proceed to court with charges, following advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions. The death will still be subject to a coronial inquiry with a directions hearing scheduled for June 15.
NT Police are investigating the suspicious death of 44-year-old man who was found dead in bed at a Gillen residence Sunday morning after reportedly suffering head and lower body injuries.
A 20-year-old male has been arrested and charged by the NT Police in connection to the alleged violent sexual assault of an elderly woman inside her Woodroffe home on Wednesday night.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government’s introduction of draft laws that would allow police to detain children for up to 48 hours and, in some cases, interrogate them without a legal guardian or parent present have been labelled as a deliberate expansion of state-inflicted trauma and harm against children, particularly Aboriginal children, critics say.
UPDATED: NT Police are searching for a man who they now say allegedly entered a Palmerston residence Wednesday night and raped a woman in her 80s at her home.
Police have allegedly seized a homemade gun, silencer and body armour, along with drugs, after a compliance inspection at a Herbert property uncovered unsecured firearms, ammunition and evidence of drug activity, NT Police said.
Two men sleeping inside a rooftop tent on their vehicle at Malak Oval were robbed at knifepoint overnight, NT Police said.
