A 33-year-old male driver under the alleged influence of meth was arrested in Bakewell by the NT Police’s Fugitive Taskforce on Monday afternoon, with police allegedly finding a loaded 12-gauge shotgun, balaclava and gloves in the man’s car.
Former Litchfield mayor facing serious assault charges
Former Litchfield mayor Doug Barden was bailed on Monday after spending the weekend in the Palmerston watch house following the NT Police laying 10 charges against him, including aggravated assault, ‘choking, strangling or suffocation’ and numerous firearms offences.
NT leads the nation … in being nice to Uber drivers
Northern Territory Uber riders are Australia’s most courteous passengers, according to the company’s annual “naughty or nice” list for 2025, which assesses and ranks rider ratings in every state.
WorkSafe investigating deaths of three DCDD employees
The deaths of three Department of Corporate and Digital Development employees, including the suicide of Shaun Joyce that all occurred within a 12-month period, are currently under investigation by the Territory’s workplace regulator because of the alleged “psychosocial hazards” that may have contributed to the deaths, NT WorkSafe said.
NT Government’s ‘Building Compliance Taskforce’ failed to comply with its stated job
The Building Compliance Taskforce established by the previous Labor government in 2022 to urgently inspect uncertified government buildings and bring them up to code did not carry out its objectives, the NT Independent can reveal, which follows bricks falling from a wall during last month’s cyclone at Royal Darwin Hospital, which was identified three years ago as one of the key public buildings not meeting compliance standards.
Vote to dissolve Darwin Basketball Association after review finds integrity risk with income proposal
The troubled Darwin Basketball Association’s financial situation worsened this year, with proposed income streams possibly breaching the sport’s national integrity rules, Basketball Australia has said, leaving the NT basketball fraternity to now vote on whether to dissolve the association.
Man extradited to face murder charge in Darwin
A 44-year-old man has been arrested in Victoria and extradited to Darwin to face one count of murder in relation to the 2020 death of his nurse partner, NT Police said.
Waterfront hotel plans pulled by developer but further options at site now being pursued
The developer behind the proposed 11-storey hotel at the Darwin Convention Centre has announced it will not proceed with the project following strong opposition from Larrakia elders, but the CLP Government has committed to proceeding with a “high-level concept” at the same site anyway.
Health staff to walk off the job at NT hospitals
Some health workers at every major Northern Territory hospital will walk off the job in protected action tomorrow, seeking better pay and safer conditions under their next enterprise bargaining agreement, their unions have said.
Scott Bowman reappointed as vice-chancellor, no explanation from CDU council as to why
Charles Darwin University vice-chancellor Scott Bowman’s contract has been renewed for another five years, but the university council will not say on what basis the decision was made, while the announcement was made two days before Mr Bowman revealed he had hired a friend and her wedding singer husband to run the university’s London campus without publicly advertising the roles.
‘A dangerous precedent’: Larrakia elders file application with feds to block Darwin Waterfront hotel from desecrating sacred site
Two Larrakia elders have filed an application to the Federal Government calling on the Environment and Water Minister to protect the Stokes Hill sacred site against the “damage and desecration” they say the proposed hotel at the Darwin Convention Centre will have on the site, which follows controversial changes the CLP Finocchiaro Government made to the NT Sacred Sites Act that the NLC says has “put all sacred sites in the NT at risk”.
Bobo’s London Bridges has fallen down: CDU’s man in London MIA as VC hires mate and wedding singer to take over
The man Charles Darwin University vice-chancellor Scott Bowman unilaterally picked to run the uni’s new London campus, Andy Bridges, has inexplicably left the role after less than a year, with Mr Bowman now hiring another mate from Far North Queensland and her wedding singer husband with public funds to lead the university’s development of the same campus, raising conflict of interest concerns.