IT’S a typically hot May morning in Kalkaringi (Kalkarindji) and taking refuge inside the airconditioned comfort of the new Child and Family Centre, members of the Local Advisory Board are deep in discussion.
A TOP Territory bull rider turned “vigilante debt collect(or)” has walked free on a suspended sentence after attacking his former friend as he slept and demanding he hand over a horse truck and bobcat.
A POPULAR Darwin watering hole has been blasted by the NT Liquor Commission as having “the appearance of a rowdy pub beer garden rather than alfresco cafe” and found in breach of its licence for having a dance floor.
TERRITORIANS are set to soak in the beauty of a Darwin Harbour sunset over a slice of delicious pizza after approval was given for a new joint at Stokes Hill Wharf.
The family of Palmerston Cricket Club member Shane Winter, who died less than two months after being diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer, have invited the community to celebrate his life.
IT’S the peak of the Territory tourism season but eager holiday-makers — and returning locals alike — are being left fuming, with many having to wait “several hours” for taxis when they land at Darwin and Alice Springs airports.
RENTS of up to $1000-a-week could be commonplace in Darwin’s CBD within the next three years, as expected economic growth combines with investor interest and an influx of tertiary students in the city.
MORE than 200 dedicated rev heads took to their hot rods and bikes to help raise more than $50,000 for prostate cancer prevention in Darwin’s annual Cruise for the Cause on Sunday.
NT POLICE have seized a toy gun loaded with foam pellets and a chemical “consistent with water” during a daring daylight raid on the home of an amateur chemist in Alice Springs.
REIGNING King of the Desert Toby Price has made the perfect start to his title defence after recording the fastest time on an epic Prologue Day at Finke.
UPDATE SAT: THE Territory’s most infamous youth detention centre has been described as a “pressure cooker” of trauma after multiple children self harmed inside Don Dale over a single weekend.
BLAIN MLA Mark Turner has written to the Attorney-General urging a mould inspection of every home and worksite owned by the Northern Territory government, amid concerns of a “timebomb” of medical complications similar to those suffered by an eight-year-old girl in 2019.
TINA Macfarlane has blasted “commentators” blaming her for the CLP’s thumping in the federal seat of Solomon and said “restrictive” rules over what she could and couldn’t say prevented her campaigning at her very best.
THE pandemic-ravaged cruise industry has been buoyed by the return of expeditions in and out of the Top End, with hopes it could draw hundreds of tourists back into the Northern Territory.
Thousands descended on the Fannie Bay Racecourse – dressed in their finest – for a history-making Adelaide River Cup race day. Were you snapped in OUR PICTURE GALLERY?
POLICE bureaucracy allegedly ignored pleas to combat rampant mould in an officer’s home on the Tiwi Islands, in the years leading up to a terrifying medical episode which left an eight-year-old girl in ICU with “decaying flesh” in her throat.
THE architect of the nation’s most draconian Covid-19 regulations has taken a paid six-month sabbatical to study bush medicine and other wellness-related measures.
THOUROUGHBRED Racing NT chairman Syd Stirling has doubled down on calls for the NT government to reverse their decision to recall the $12m from the Darwin Turf Club.
PLANNING for the development of two new suburbs around Palmerston will be fast-tracked in the latest push to bolster the Territory’s population and economic growth.