Three males were arrested and one remains on the loose after the group allegedly stole tools and spray cans from a Tennant Creek business before spraying graffiti on buildings down Paterson Street, using the tools to break into a licenced premise and stealing 134 litres of alcohol, NT Police said.
The cost of Darwin’s long-delayed ship lift has surged to at least $820 million, a parliamentary committee has found, which will see taxpayers cover the costs for Paspaley Pearls Group to operate, as per an agreement signed in 2021.
Lawyers who indicate they represent Darwin Council, Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis, and council staff have threatened to sue Cyclone Tracy survivor Antony Bullock for defamation if he publishes a book about his investigation into the selection of a sculpture commemorating the cyclone’s 50th anniversary.
NT WorkSafe has appointed Grant Hastie as its new executive director, effective August 25, following a national recruitment process.
Two people were killed in a single vehicle rollover on the Stuart Highway north of Tennant Creek on Friday, NT Police said.
More than 80 per cent of NT Police officers who took part in a ballot on a new pay offer have voted against the deal, which included a three per cent wage increase, the NT Police Association has said, amid threats from the government that rejecting the deal could lead to cuts to housing entitlements along with generous personal leave provisions.
The Mandorah ferry terminal and associated works will open to the public later this month with a total build cost of $85 million, the Finocchiaro Government has said, which is $39 million more than estimated in 2017, and comes more than six years after the former Labor government declared it a priority project.
The death of a 59-year-old male corrections inmate at Royal Darwin Hospital on Sunday is being investigated as a death in custody, but the NT Independent understands it is not being treated as suspicious.
The Gold Coast Suns are trying to get out of the $2 million a year deal it signed with the Northern Territory Government to play two matches in Darwin, a new report suggests, but the claim has been dismissed by the club’s chair who also said the team would be reviewing how many games they play in the city after 2026.
The NT Government will distribute $231 million in federal grants over the next four years to homelessness frontline and support services across the NT, which comes as Indigenous groups have continued their calls for the Federal Government to withhold money from the NT Government over its refusal to meet with Aboriginal groups to discuss crime solutions and failing to meet KPIs on Closing the Gap objectives.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro’s comments in Parliament that 45 paediatricians who voiced concerns about the treatment of children in youth detention should stop “wasting” her time and go back to “looking after sick children” have been condemned by the Australian Medical Association NT.
A Corrections officer whose two-month-old baby was left with a fractured skull and a brain bleed after a violent home invasion was not told by his superiors that the alleged offender was being transferred to Alice Springs Prison where he works, the United Workers Union has said.
