Construction giant Sitzler has filed for an “exceptional development permit” to move ahead with its proposed 256-bed workers camp in Katherine that will only require ministerial approval to proceed, rather than undergo the typical planning process, which has irked residents who say the development will have disastrous impacts on the area.
A stolen ute was used to ram raid two Alice Springs businesses, and was later driven dangerously around the CBD with occupants throwing “objects” at police officers, NT Police said.
UPDATED: The Federal Labor Government will not vary or cancel Landbridge’s now 91-year lease of the Darwin Port, following a review into the controversial 2015 deal.
The Territory’s anti-corruption watchdog has declared there is no “widespread corruption” in the Northern Territory in his annual report, while then proceeding to describe the most widespread corruption and seemingly wilful blindness to the problem the NT has ever seen.
Three people involved in assaults on two security guards, as well as pulling an edged weapon on a third guard, and throwing an edged weapon at a fourth, are on the run after the attacks at a Darwin Shopping Centre on Friday afternoon, NT Police said while declaring the offenders were no longer a danger to the public at the shopping centre.
A woman has died in hospital following a single vehicle crash in Larapinta on Sunday, NT Police said.
NT WorkSafe has dropped six charges of reckless conduct risking death or injury against the partnership that owns Little Miss Korea restaurant a court has been told, but six counts of failure to comply with health and safety duties remain, the media has reported.
Three acting local court judges John McBride, Carly Ingles, and Ben O’Loughlin have been appointed to the NT Local Court to “alleviate pressures on the justice system and provide better justice outcomes”, the Attorney General has said.
A man suffered serious injuries in a hit-and-run in Palmerston, NT Police has said.
A man, nine teenagers, and two 12-year-old boys, were arrested over the theft of 12 vehicles in Darwin this week, NT Police said but there was a possible almost 300km police chase that ended with officers stopping one of those vehicles with tyre spikes that was not explained by the agency.
The ongoing coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker will not proceed next week as scheduled after Coroner Elisabeth Armitage ordered the sittings be vacated to provide her more time to consider Zach Rolfe’s application calling on her to recuse herself for “apprehended bias”.
Education Minister Eva Lawler should resign immediately over her failure to fix the Territory’s public education system, Independent MLA Robyn Lambley has said in Parliament, while accusing Ms Lawler and her Labor Cabinet colleagues of being “too lazy and too incompetent” to care about the crumbling system.
