UPDATED: A 28-year-old man has been charged with driving while under the influence of amphetamine, after being involved in a collision that killed a 33-year-old man who was riding an unregistered dirt bike under the influence of alcohol, NT Police said.
Two housing providers in Darwin and Alice Springs have received $2.12 million as part of a new pilot community-housing program by the NT Government that offers inexpensive housing to domestic violence victims and survivors in the ongoing tight rental market.
Famed nature photographer and former Darwin Council alderman Paul Arnold, who is facing stalking, deprivation of liberty and aggravated assault charges, has rebranded his Darwin gallery business by removing his own name from the company’s sign.
The NT Police brass claimed five weeks ago it had referred a criminal complaint against a senior detective who investigated Zach Rolfe to the anti-corruption commissioner, however the NT Independent can confirm the ICAC is not investigating the matter and has put it back on police.
Roughly 30 young offenders with a long list of prior crimes across the Northern Territory have had their records wiped clean following the Fyles Government’s changes to the age of criminal responsibility that took effect Tuesday, including fingerprints and DNA evidence deleted from police databases.
A man has been charged after allegedly assaulting his partner, who was taken to Royal Darwin Hospital with significant head injuries, multiple broken bones and facial fractures on Tuesday night, NT Police said.
Eight homes in Darwin’s northern suburbs were broken into overnight Monday, and a vehicle stolen, NT Police said.
Flinders University maritime archaeologists will research parts of the Northern Territory and Western Australian coast to find Indigenous artefacts from a time when sea levels were lower, combining archaeology, marine science and Indigenous knowledge, in a new study that has been funded by the Australian Research Council.
Darwin jockey Sonja Wiseman, who is scheduled to ride in the Darwin Cup next week, had her nose broken in three places and two of her teeth knocked out, after being hit with a rock in an alleged attempted carjacking by a group of up to 15 men, it has been reported.
Thirty-five per cent of NT Police Fire and Emergency Services employees who responded to the NT Government’s workplace survey said they did not believe their senior managers had the skills and the capability to lead their organisation, newly released results show.
A petition launched after the stabbing death of bottle shop worker Declan Laverty that has garnered nearly 26,000 signatures calling on the Fyles Government to take action on crime will be debated in Parliament next month, but the Opposition says the government needs to set a firm date and not gag debate.
The corruption investigation into how troubled water bottling company NT Beverages was gifted $10 million of taxpayer money just before it went out of business has been shut down due to “jurisdictional” issues, ICAC Michael Riches said, referring the “concerning” matter to the Chief Minister for further action through a different body.
