A two-kilometre section of the Stuart Highway that has been under repair for at least 10 months was not bituminised before the Wet season rains, which was the major cause of food supply disruptions in Darwin, the NT Independent understands, with the full extent of the situation not initially disclosed by the government.
The NT has once again ranked as the economic laggard among all states in terms of overall economic performance in the CommSec quarterly State of the States report, led by weakening key economic indicators in housing finance, construction and rising unemployment.
There were more than 100 people fighting, some with weapons, in Wadeye on Sunday, with one man hit in the leg with a crossbow bolt, NT police said.
Three teenagers and a 12-year-old have been arrested for breaking into a Tennant Creek house, with one alleged offender still on the run, while the day before, two other men who are still on the run, broke into the same house and stole cigarettes and alcohol, NT Police said.
Territory prisoners will be given vocational education and training by Charles Darwin University under a $1.7 million annual agreement signed with the Lawler Government, a contract that was previously held but lost by the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education in June last year.
Three teenagers have been arrested after allegedly stealing a wallet and a moped off an employee of a Karama business, NT Police said.
EXCLUSIVE: The Mayor of Alice Springs was threatened with an axe outside his next door neighbour’s home on Christmas Eve, sources have told the NT Independent, in an incident which comes amid a fraught situation for the troubled town, where crime has become the focus of national media attention and federal intervention.
Former small business minister Paul Kirby is the latest Labor MLA to announce his retirement from politics, issuing a statement on Thursday morning that he will not recontest his Port Darwin seat at the next election.
Technology glitches and legislative stuff-ups have been blamed for the delayed implementation of mandatory sentencing reforms that aim to abolish compulsory jail time minimums for assault, drug offences, and breaches of domestic violence orders, the Lawler Government has said.
A man has been charged after allegedly breaking into a house early in January and attempting to rape a sleeping woman, NT Police said.
Some Indigenous people in Alice Springs have been forced to defend themselves in court because of a shortage of lawyers at legal aid services, the ABC has reported.
UPDATED: Two men and two women have been arrested after allegedly stealing alcohol from a business, with one man alleged to have assaulted a security guard at the business, NT Police said.
