Cyclone Tracy survivors will be excluded from a secret VIP-only unveiling ceremony for the controversial taxpayer-funded Cyclone Tracy 50th anniversary memorial sculpture, an event driven by Darwin Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis, with some survivors calling for dignitaries to boycott it.
A 13-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in relation to the possession of stolen property from a Darwin home and sharing material on social media about the break-in, NT Police said.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government has “betrayed the trust of thousands” by scrapping the plan to underground power lines across Darwin, the Opposition says, while the government said “it looks like” it has found $200 million in savings from “deferring” that project and others, but their figures do not appear to add up.
Two interstate high-risk work assessors brought to the NT to train an undisclosed number of employees at different companies were not accredited under NT law, NT WorkSafe has revealed, urging all businesses and workers to thoroughly verify the accreditation of assessors before investing in high-risk training.
Nearly 400 people in Katherine were scanned last week by police using metal detecting “wands” that led to 20 “positive indications for weapons”, NT Police said.
The “extra” $1 million Legal Aid NT was provided by the Finocchiaro Government will not stop it cutting criminal legal services as planned, the group has indicated, while producing a handbook explaining to people representing themselves how to ask a judge to adjourn their matter.
Youth inmates are today being moved out of the current Don Dale facility and into the new Holtze Youth Detention Centre in Darwin, the Corrections Commissioner said, to make way for 50 low-security adult male prisoners who will take over their space in the old Berrimah prison by next month.
A 49-year-old woman who was struck by a bicycle in the northern suburbs last week has died in hospital as a result of serious injuries sustained in the collision, NT Police said.
The Northern Land Council has appointed Yuseph Deen as its new Chief Executive Officer, who previously served as CEO of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council.
A memorandum of understanding between the CLP Government and Alice Springs Town Council will see $27 million worth of infrastructure projects flow to the town, the Chief Minister said.
A group of armed offenders allegedly involved in a series of burglaries and car thefts from various Alice Springs homes over the weekend, that saw them driving stolen vehicles dangerously around the town while throwing rocks out of the windows, avoided arrest and are still at large, NT Police said.
Failed mega prawn farm Project Sea Dragon will be forced into liquidation following a Federal Court ruling on Friday, officially ending a controversial major project that saw NT taxpayers fork out $56 million for the promise of more than a thousand jobs that never eventuated.
