NT Police are continuing their search for missing five-year-old Sharon Granites four days after she went missing from Old Timers town camp outside of Alice Springs, with Police Commissioner Martin Dole calling for those with knowledge of the whereabouts of Jefferson Lewis, the man police believe abducted the girl, to come forward.
A 10-year-old boy is in custody for his alleged involvement in the aggravated robbery of a 72-year-old woman who was driving out of a Casuarina shopping centre carpark on Tuesday evening when several people jumped on her car, opened the door and ripped glasses off her face before allegedly stealing the victim’s purse, police said.
The Mindil Beach Sunset Markets will launch its 2026 season this Thursday April 30 featuring a variety of new stalls and a massive fireworks display to mark the occasion, organisers said.
Tourism Minister Marie-Clare Boothby has returned from a previously unannounced “China tourism mission” to the city of Guangzhou, which she said was necessary to build relationships in person and attract more Chinese tourists to the Northern Territory.
The NT has recorded 84 cases of diphtheria since January 1 last year, NT Health said on Tuesday, with 66 of those cases involving skin sores, as incidents of the uncommon bacterial infection that can cause severe illness in unvaccinated individuals continues to grow.
NT Police have identified a 47-year-old man they say may have information about the disappearance of a five-year-old girl who went missing from Old Timers Camp in Alice Springs on Saturday around 11:30 pm, with police deploying helicopters, all-terrain vehicles and drones in hopes of locating the missing girl.
The 2026 Bassinthegrass festival will feature three homegrown music acts this year, with Territory artist competition winners TANG, RileyP, and DJ D’Moss set to perform at the NT’s largest music festival on May 16 at Mindil Beach.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government has announced another pre-budget funding commitment, this time committing $110 million for the new purpose-built Palmerston Secondary Special Education School, with the first proposed school designs made public on Monday.
A 44-year-old man was arrested by the Fugitive Task Force on Wednesday and charged in connection to historical child sex offences that allegedly occurred in the Greater Darwin area in 2008, NT Police said on Friday.
The Department of Corporate and Digital Development will not provide an update on its seven-month-old investigation into the death of employee Shaun Joyce, whose family alleged bullying and harassment contributed to his death, which follows the department head not directly answering questions about the workplace culture during a Parliamentary public hearing into the failed $320 million Acacia IT project earlier this year.
A 51-year-old Darwin woman is facing charges for allegedly defrauding a non-profit organisation that supports NDIS clients, NT Police said.
UPDATED: The Finocchiaro CLP Government has announced a $10 million “support package” for St John Ambulance to recruit more paramedics amid a crisis situation with the ambulance provider, which comes while the government has pledged to expedite negotiations on a new five-year service contract that expired in January, while the union says the latest cash injection is not near enough to fix the problems.
