A man was killed in a collision between a car and a truck in Alice Springs on Monday morning, NT Police said.


A man was killed in a collision between a car and a truck in Alice Springs on Monday morning, NT Police said.

A 37-year-old man has been arrested and is facing multiple charges following an “extensive investigation” into the cause of 80 illegal bushfires through the Greater Darwin region over a three month period, NT Police said.
Infrastructure Minister Eva Lawler has exempted an unspecified number of government buildings from requiring occupancy certificates, while seeming to indicate none had been inspected by certifiers almost 15 months after the government announced a taskforce to investigate non-compliant buildings, and more than 13 months after the Territory’s anti-corruption watchdog launched its own investigation.

Six people have been arrested over joyriding in two stolen cars in Coconut Grove, Berrimah, Palmerston, Marlow’s Lagoon, Coolalinga and Adelaide River overnight, NT Police said.

A man has been charged after alleging assaulting a woman multiple times, before chasing her onto the road where she was hit by a car, NT Police said.

Bonza Aviation has announced it will add three new routes between Darwin and Alice Springs and interstate destinations but the Fyles Government has not said how much it was costing the taxpayer to attract the airline.

The Albanese Government has announced a review of the future use of private land contaminated by per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS chemicals, around three Australia Defence Force bases including Katherine’s Tindal RAAF base, and which will consider the government taking on affected land.
The Anindilyakwa Land Council has not met its obligations to make sure traditional owners understand high value development proposals they consent to on their land, and its distributions of royalty money lack transparency, an Australian National Audit Office report has found, but the council has dismissed the recommendations on how to be more transparent.

A man has been charged with murder and two other charges over the stabbing in Darwin city on Saturday night, NT Police said.

A plan to construct an affordable public housing complex on the old Asti Hotel site in Larrekayh has been replaced with a new application for a multi-level residential development, the media has reported.
NT Police has suppressed the theft of an NT Fire and Rescue Service firefighting ute, that sources have said was believed to be stolen by members of the Peppimenarti-based Jovi Boys, three days after the Police Commissioner and the Territory Response Group visited the remote community to crack down on the gang.

CareFlight has been given $19.95 million by the federal government to buy a second helicopter and an aeromedical jet, Health and Aged Care Minister Mark Butler has said.