UPDATED: A party of five, including two teens, who had been reported missing after their nondescript four-metre tinny with “little to no safety equipment” was last seen leaving Pioneer Beach at Bynoe Harbour on Tuesday, have been found alive, authorities said.
Twenty-five men have been arrested for allegedly being involved in riots in Wadeye, with 10 having been remanded in custody to appear in Darwin Local Court, NT Police have said.
The WA Police Union has blamed the “exodus” from the Western Australian police force on management and culture, with a record number of officers leaving, at an attrition rate of 4.6 per cent over the last year, compared to the 10 per cent for the Northern Territory over a similar period.
Magpie geese bag limits will increase from three to seven this season, Environment Minister Lauren Moss has announced, with the Territory geese population estimated to have increased 89 per cent on last year but a peak hunting group has said the government’s 2021 figures had to be wrong.
A new 10-year government funding agreement for the Territory’s horse racing industry will see the controversial $12 million grant to the Darwin Turf Club essentially forgiven in exchange for less money being awarded to the club over the next 10 years, the Fyles Government announced last night.
Jetstar has cut its popular Darwin to Singapore route, effective August 6, the company said on Tuesday, ending what the Chief Minister previously called a “vital connection” for the NT’s economy.
NT Police, Fire and Emergency Services has revealed it was swamped with emergency calls during Cracker Night festivities, responding to more than 231 grassfires alone and 13 structure fires stemming from Territory Day celebrations.
The occupants of a vehicle that crashed on the Stuart Highway near Manton Dam on Sunday night, that saw the 15-year-old driver killed and four other males between the ages of nine and 15 hospitalised, were allegedly involved in a robbery at an Adelaide River service station using axes and machetes earlier in the evening, sources have told the NT Independent.
The Fyles Government has created a $3 million fund that will be available to local businesses and industries with new ideas to ease workforce shortages by boosting partnership on projects and activities that help attract and retain skilled workers.
A free youth event will be held on Wednesday at the lagoon at the Darwin Waterfront which includes touch football, swimming, as well as dance.
The Northern Territory had a temporary decrease in alcohol consumption following the introduction of a minimum unit price on alcohol in October 2018, however consumption “appears” to have increased since then towards the pre-intervention level, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission said its drug monitoring wastewater analysis program reports shows.
Around 22,000 minimum wage-earning Territorians, and 2,605,400 people nationally, will get a pay rise starting Friday with the minimum wage increasing to $21.38 per hour, Fair Work Australia has said.
