A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection to a hit-and-run on Vanderlin Drive near Hibiscus Shopping Centre on Thursday afternoon that sent two people to hospital, including one with life-threatening injuries.


A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection to a hit-and-run on Vanderlin Drive near Hibiscus Shopping Centre on Thursday afternoon that sent two people to hospital, including one with life-threatening injuries.

Two people have been arrested after the trade training centre inside the school in Wadeye was set on fire, NT Police said.

Territory Day public fireworks are back on at Mindil Beach after public outrage, nearly a week after the Lawler Government announced moving the iconic celebration, which it now claims was because of a single complaint made to organisers of the event.

Meredith Day Huntingford has been appointed as a Supreme Court of the Northern Territory judge, the Attorney General and Justice Minister Chansey Paech has announced.

The Lawler Government’s confusing decision to move the Territory Day public fireworks display from its home at Mindil Beach to the Darwin Waterfront this year is no closer to being explained, after it was revealed at Estimates that no complaints about the festivities were ever raised by traditional owners and that a permit through the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority was never required.

The Territory’s acting anti-corruption commissioner says she disclosed a conflict of interest relating to the recently published major ICAC investigation into Territory Labor’s election rorts at the last election, which leaves the status of the second part of the report in limbo, while pledging to provide leadership in the office after a “tumultuous” two weeks for staff.

The Lawler Labor Government secretly gave taxpayer money to keep the Darwin Salties basketball team afloat despite seemingly never seeing audited financial statements, claiming the details are commercial in confidence, while financial documents show the club lost more than $500,000 in its first two years of operation after receiving roughly $1 million combined from two Territory basketball organisations and the NT Government.

A Wadeye man has been charged after another man was stabbed in the back in the remote community, NT Police said.

A teenager was the victim of a pushbike jacking in Alice Springs when a group threatened him with an unspecified edged weapon, NT Police said.

Territory Day fireworks celebrations will be moved from Mindil Beach, where the display has been held for the last 20 years, to the Waterfront for this year’s celebrations, Northern Territory Major Events has declared, but a proper explanation has still not been offered.

Three female youths allegedly robbed a service station in Eaton, NT Police said.

A man has been charged after allegedly stabbing a woman in the neck in a Moil street, NT Police said.