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The NT's acting Chief Judge was forced to issue an extraordinary "correction" earlier this week after an email from the courts' deputy registrar stated there would be no new Local Court judges appointed "in the foreseeable future" necessitating cancelled court lists in an already over-stretched…
Impound Date Thursday, September 24, 2026 - 12:00 Notice # 20087 - I6 Location Found Wanguri Collect By Wednesday, September 30, 2026 Domestic Short Hair - Kitten - Tabby - No Microchip
Impound Date Thursday, September 24, 2026 - 12:00 Notice # 20086 - I6 Location Found Wanguri Collect By Wednesday, September 30, 2026 Domestic Short Hair - Kitten - Grey - No Microchip
There is no current market for production-scale Beetaloo gas fracking until a pipeline is built, so the CLP has announced plans for a string of water-guzzling, AI data centres powered by Beetaloo fracking, writes Bree Ahrens, that might make things easier for the fracking industry, but there’s no…
Impound Date Thursday, September 24, 2026 - 12:00 Notice # 20081 - 9 Location Found Millner Collect By Wednesday, September 30, 2026 Domestic Short Hair - Adult - Black
Batteries - Home battery systems Elizabeth.Gleeson Thu, 24 September 2026 - 14:49 Category E-Waste How to dispose Contact City of Darwin on 8930 0300 Tooltip Also known as Battery Energy Storage Systems (or BESS), home battery systems require specialist removal and are not accepted through kerbside…
Former NT Police assistant commissioner Janelle Tonkin has taken aim at the NT Police Force's toxic culture, after her official police picture was altered with AI to make it sexually suggestive and shared amongst an unknown number of officers, saying the police force has "real work to do" to make…
UPDATED: A 14-year-old girl was tasered by police in the Darwin CBD Tuesday afternoon after she allegedly stabbed a police officer with a kitchen knife, injuring his upper arm and chest, NT Police said.
Alice Springs is set to receive a major infrastructure upgrade for a new four-way signalised intersection at Schwarz Crescent, connecting to Smith Street and the Stuart Highway, as part of a joint government tender, with the total cost not revealed.
UPDATED: A 42-year-old NT Police officer has been suspended on full pay after being charged with aggravated assault and served with a domestic violence order following an incident at a Palmerston home while the male officer was off-duty, NT Police said.
Federal Finance Minister Katy Gallagher says the Finocchiaro CLP Government is gaining a reputation as being "very difficult to work with" following a meeting on Friday that the Federal Labor Government scheduled to discuss why the NT was leaving tens of millions of dollars on the table in…
Twenty-four Territory business and industry bodies will travel to Texas with Trade and Business Minister Robyn Cahill for an unspecified period of time and at an unknown cost to taxpayers to make their case to US-based companies for benefits from Beetaloo Sub-basin gas-related projects in the NT,…
The $355 million Acacia digital health program did not have a proper implementation plan produced until two years after the project started which was not effectively adopted, a consultant who worked on the project has revealed, arguing the system was treated merely as an IT project, rather than a…
The Acacia IT project was intended to transform healthcare, not simply replace ageing systems, but failed to follow its master plan, maintain clinical involvement, test whether continued spending was delivering value, and mistook extensive governance structures for effective oversight, writes…
Darwin Planning Stormwater Upgrades and Reconstruction Program 2026-27 Stormwater upgrades and reconstruction have been identified as a critical program in the Municipal Plan 2026-27 , and will deliver a $4.5 million program, more than double the investment from the previous financial year. These…
Impound Date Wednesday, September 16, 2026 - 12:00 Notice # 20061 - 26 Location Found Karama Collect By Tuesday, September 22, 2026 Domestic Short Hair - Adult - Chocolate and White - No Microchip
Healthy Darwin 2026-27 Wet Season - Program Timetable cdandie Thu, 17 September 2026 - 15:46 Healthy Darwin is all about getting the people of Darwin active and living a healthy lifestyle. The program is packed with low-cost activities for everyone and is a great chance to learn new skills, develop…
Three males have been arrested in Wadeye in connection to the theft of a security vehicle from RAAF Base Darwin on Monday, NT Police said, with the vehicle allegedly used in connection with further criminal offences.
Impound Date Thursday, September 17, 2026 - 12:00 Notice # 20068 - 8 Location Found Malak Collect By Wednesday, September 23, 2026 Domestic Short Hair - Adult - Tabby and White
Four people, including a teenage girl, have been arrested over an alleged attack on a man who is in a critical condition with skull fractures after a street fight in Nightcliff on Monday involving about 30 people, some armed with weapons including poles, rocks and axes, NT Police said.
A 28-year-old woman died in a Malak residence Wednesday morning, NT Police said, with her 26-year-old partner arrested at the scene for an alleged earlier assault on the woman hours before she was found unresponsive.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government will relocate residents of the Batten Road YiSSA transitional housing facility to Batchelor as part of a costly plan that will see a new repurposed demountable facility built that will also accommodate remote flood evacuees, but the decision has irked Batchelor…
Impound Date Wednesday, September 16, 2026 - 12:00 Notice # 20057 - 13 Location Found Malak Collect By Tuesday, September 22, 2026 Domestic Short Hair - Adult - Ginger
Impound Date Wednesday, September 16, 2026 - 12:00 Notice # 20056 - 4 Location Found Wagaman Collect By Tuesday, September 22, 2026 Domestic Short Hair - Kitten - Black
