A 32-year-old man who allegedly assaulted three homeless people in Katherine last year had his Girraween home raided yesterday, where police found a live crocodile and an illegal firearm.
Two teens and an 11-year-old charged with assault of bus driver
Three youths have been identified and charged after allegedly assaulting a bus driver on Sunday evening and attempting to rob him, NT Police said, while identifying two of the children as also allegedly being involved in other crimes the day before.
Quarter-tonne marsupials roamed long distances across Australia’s arid interior
Paleontologists from Flinders University, using advanced 3D scans and technologies, have identified Australia’s first long-distance walkers in the form of a 250kg marsupial with “heeled hands”, from 3.5 million-year-old partial remains found in central Australia.
‘Very special birthday’: CLP MLA wrote birthday card to convicted murderer
A senior CLP pollie sent a hand-written birthday note to one of the Territory’s most notorious murderers with government resources, wishing him a “very special birthday” and a “happy 58th”. FIND OUT WHO HERE.
Mike Cannon-Brookes-led consortium to buy Sun Cable solar power project
A Mike Cannon-Brookes-led consortium will buy the Sun Cable renewable energy project, the company’s administrators have said.
New hub for service members and veterans opens in Darwin
A second Mates4Mates Veteran and Family Wellbeing Center has opened in Stuart Park to boost support services for the Northern Territory’s more than 10,000 serving members, veterans and their families.
Man charged with murder over death of Tony Rowe, after remains found
A 29-year-old man, who was extradited from Queensland last month, has been charged with murder over the suspicious disappearance of Darwin man Tony Rowe in May last year, after yet-to-be identified human remains were found late last week, NT Police said.
Taxpayers bail out Darwin Turf Club’s Silks lounge after govt pledged to reduce funding: Internal reports
The Darwin Turf Club was quietly given more than $4 million of taxpayer funds from the NT’s peak racing body to prop up its Silks club bar last year, according to internal financial documents, which also show the lounge has been unable to pay its debts of $70,000 a month and continues to operate at a loss, the NT Independent can reveal.
Minister spruiking disabled gondola on Ferris wheel while govt neglects day-to-day accessibility issues
The Fyles Government is promoting the Stokes Hill Wharf Ferris wheel’s new wheelchair-accessible gondola while the Commonwealth has condemned them for acting unlawfully by not providing disability accessible transport on the Mandorah ferry and from remote Territory airports.
Speaker flies to London on junket amid fuel card scandal
EXCLUSIVE: Labor Speaker Mark Monaghan has jetted off to the United Kingdom on a parliamentary junket amid a growing scandal involving the use of government fuel cards to pay for MLAs’ personal interstate holidays, the NT Independent can reveal.
Man with knuckle dusters and knife arrested in Alice Springs: Police
A 37-year-old man armed with knuckle dusters and a knife in public has been arrested after allegedly “making threats and behaving erratically” in Alice Springs last night, NT Police said.
NT Government finally moves on overdue public servants’ wage hike
The NT’s public servants, with the help of the Fair Work Commission, have forced the NT Government to deliver a pay rise which had been promised back in October last year.