UPDATED: The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has appealed the sentence handed out to 24-year-old Jake Danby for hit-and-run causing death, following public uproar over the lenient sentence this week which spared him jail time, despite Danby bragging in text messages about hitting two Aboriginal men, killing one of them, who he called an “oxygen thief” while saying he would not go to jail.
The 24-year-old man who struck two Aboriginal men with his car, leaving one to die as he fled the scene, and who received no jail time this week for the crime, is related to Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby, who publicly commented on the matter Thursday morning at a press conference, but did not disclose the familial relation and her clear conflict of interest.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government has claimed it has overseen 184 “new” officers joining the NT Police since the August 2024 election, but failed to disclose that 105 experienced officers left the force since October, while the 184 figure is also disputed by the NT Police force itself, which says the sworn officer count has only increased by 48 over that time period.
There will be about 2.2 million trays of mangoes grown in the Darwin region this season but growers will be faced with higher labour costs because of an extended harvest period, the ABC reported.
A new new pop culture and technology event called DiGiT, which incorporates gaming, cosplay, digital art and e-sports, along with panels and workshops, will be held in Darwin in November the organisers have said.
Territory bus drivers employed by private operator CDC have started protected industrial action drawing attention to increasing incidents of assaults, rock throwing, and other threats workers face, as part of their demands for better pay and working conditions, which comes one year to the day since a driver was kicked in the head while driving 70km/h down the Stuart Highway.
After many months of searching, the Finocchiaro CLP Government has hired a former adviser to the NSW police commissioner and noted “crisis management specialist” as its new director of communications.
The highly anticipated Motocross World Championship will make its return to Australia after a 24-year hiatus this weekend in Darwin, when world class racing hits the Hidden Valley Motorsports complex on a new purpose-built international motocross track.
A 24-year-old Darwin man who was spared jail time this week after killing an Aboriginal man with his car in 2024 and leaving another injured before fleeing the scene and bragging in text messages to mates about teaching an “oxygen thief” a lesson may have his sentence appealed by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
A 12-year-old boy has been arrested and charged after allegedly swinging a knife at another student during an altercation at Katherine High School, NT Police said.
A man has been arrested after his partner died after being found unresponsive in the front yard of their Palmerston home overnight, NT Police said.
Two women were taken to hospital with head injuries following a “large disturbance” in Tennant Creek Sunday afternoon, that involved some members of the crowd armed with “various weapons”, NT Police said, with investigations continuing and no arrests made yet.
