The family of 19-year-old Keith Kerinaiua have spoken out after he was charged with murdering Declan Laverty last week, saying he suffers from foetal alcohol syndrome and was neglected and left starving as a child, who became another victim of a “racist system”.
A crime spree in Alice Springs over the weekend that saw multiple cars set on fire and businesses ram-raided have citizens terrified and calling on the Federal Government to take real action to restore order to the town less than two months after a visit from the Prime Minister.
A man was killed in a fatal road incident on Thursday afternoon near Victoria River after becoming trapped underneath a trailer on a highway, NT Police said.
UPDATED: Two Palmerston bottle shops have allegedly been held up in a series of attacks on Thursday, with a credit card stolen from staff at one after they were threatened with having their “throats slit”, and alcohol stolen at a second shop where a large kitchen knife was brandished, NT Police said, which follows the stabbing death of a bottle-shop employee in Darwin on Sunday.
There are not enough beds for mental health patients in the psychiatric unit in Darwin for patients to receive safe and timely treatment, leading to the “rare” practice of intubating patients, the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation, NT Branch said.
BWS stores across the Northern Territory will be closing at 6 pm starting today, while the Airport Tavern BWS store – where Declan Laverty was stabbed to death on Sunday – will remain closed indefinitely, the company’s owner has said.
The first batch of US Marines has arrived in Darwin for the 12th rotation of the Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (MRF-D) which will see up to 2,500 marines conducting military exercises with the Australian Defence Force and regional partner nations over the next seven months.
Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has dispelled fresh rumours that he has resigned, or plans to resign, claiming the latest rumour was started by “anti-vaxxers and people with agendas”.
Fossils of an early relative of the wombat with a powerful bite and a possum with unusually large fangs have been discovered in the Northern Territory by palaeontologists from Flinders University that have helped solve a long-standing evolutionary puzzle.
The mother of the man stabbed to death at the Airport Tavern on Sunday allegedly had a rock and racial abuse hurled at her outside the Darwin Woolworths only hours after flying into the city after the death of her son, while her brother was allegedly spat on in the face and was threatened with being cut up with a machete, a police source has told the NT Independent.
The Fyles Government rejected an Opposition Bill two years ago that would have made it more difficult for repeat and violent offenders to be granted bail, while today pledging to review bail laws in light of the recent stabbing death of a young bottle shop employee, while also killing a proposed public inquiry into police resources despite claiming it will also review police powers.
A 40-year-old man is facing deprivation of liberty charges after he allegedly abducted a 65-year-old man in his car and assaulted him multiple times while the vehicle drove around the Alice Springs CBD, NT Police said.
