The Finocchiaro Government has announced it will monitor air pollutants from gas production in Darwin for the first time, which follows a 2023 review that found Inpex had “systematically underestimated” emissions from its Darwin LNG project for years, while a Darwin paediatrician welcomed the move but said it was concerning the pollutants had never previously been monitored.
Male construction workers in the Northern Territory have a suicide rate close to double that of other employed men, national coronial data shows, with a support platform founder warning the industry can no longer treat bullying, isolation and psychological pressure as secondary workplace issues.
The director of the NT Police college authorised nearly $400,000 for the supply and delivery of four BMW 330is from Melbourne despite Subarus used as official police vehicles, newly released police expenditure records show, while the NT Police executive team also spent nearly $10,000 at local shop ‘Stickers and Stuff’ on “promotional merchandise” for its anti-racism program in a year that saw its budget blow-out by more than $14 million.
A 45-year-old woman has been arrested and charged following a drug and weapons raid in Gray, where police allege part of her supply operation involved youths stealing cat food from a supermarket in exchange for marijuana, with officers later seizing drugs, cash and a range of weapons including batons, tasers, knives and samurai swords.
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested over the stabbing death of a man in Tennant Creek, NT Police said, a death which came amid an ongoing feud between families from outlying communities that police say has already led to violent clashes and the seizure of a large number of weapons this week.
City of Darwin staff did not provide enough detail about staffing costs and contracted service provider expenses to councillors to justify the recent 5.5 per cent rates increase for 2026-27, a lone councillor has said while calling for better transparency on operational expenditure at council.
The NT Government has earmarked $2 million to initiate the long-delayed first stage of the redevelopment of Darwin’s Gardens Oval.
A governance expert has called for an independent external investigation into the troubled Acacia IT project implementation team, that family members of deceased employee Shaun Joyce allege contributed to his death, warning that internal reviews lack transparency with unanswered questions remaining about whether the actions of the department’s chief executive Catherine Weber formed part of the investigation.
UPDATED: Telstra says it has restored a significant service outage due to a fibre break along the Stuart Highway, which affected communities in the NT, WA, and South Australia, that saw crews travelling more than 1,000 kms to fix.
Two fuel stations in the Greater Darwin area are facing nearly $20,000 in fines each for allegedly charging motorists more for fuel at the bowser than advertised, following compliance checks by NT Consumer Affairs, but it remains unclear why the national corporation that owns them was not hit with higher fines the government implemented earlier this year.
The recently appointed Integrity and Ethics Commissioner says he sees nothing that would preclude newly appointed chief executive and former NT Police commissioner Reece Kershaw from being involved in sensitive investigations into NT Police and other corruption probes, while suggesting any potential conflicts of interest raised would be kept secret.
A new ward at Royal Darwin Hospital has been completed a year later than the government had originally planned, alongside a 30 per cent budget blowout.
