UPDATES: Divers and a team of investigators are searching for the wreckage of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 again, as DNA samples were taken to help identify victims’ bodies.
via Darwin and Local News January 01, 2015 at 12:13PM
RELATIVES of those lost on QZ 8501 face another night of agony as storms force searchers to suspend operations early after divers recovered seven bodies from the Java Sea.
via Darwin and Local News December 31, 2014 at 04:50PM
IT is the shocking image of childhood innocence sacrificed to the city’s evil drug trade — a five-year-old boy allegedly finalising his uncle’s heroin deal at a Woolloomooloo housing commission block.
via Darwin and Local News December 30, 2014 at 10:30PM
THE Islamic State group has published an interview online with the Jordanian pilot who they recently captured, and also praised the Sydney siege attack.
via Darwin and Local News December 30, 2014 at 09:02AM
Territorians are a f****ing foul-mouthed lot who have been fined close to $50,000 for their poor vocabulary, according to new figures released by the NT Justice Department.
via Darwin and Local News December 29, 2014 at 05:59PM
BREAKING: A man has been killed at Cheynes Beach, 70km east of Albany, with police confirming the man suffered horrific injuries “consistent with a shark bite’’.
via Darwin and Local News December 29, 2014 at 02:26PM
WITH 12 highly trained search and rescue specialists, powerful radars and cameras to scour for signs of life or debris, this is how Australia is helping to find the missing AirAsia plane.
via Darwin and Local News December 29, 2014 at 12:20PM
ANIMAL Welfare workers are powerless to help abused and neglected dogs unless an owner can be identified — despite horror reports of camp dog cruelty in a Northern Territory community — a government bureaucrat has said.
via Darwin and Local News December 29, 2014 at 09:43AM
THE company in charge of enforcing paid parking at Royal Darwin Hospital has back-pedalled on Christmas Day fines imposed on people visiting sick loved ones.
via Darwin and Local News December 28, 2014 at 04:04PM
A MAJOR search operation is underway after an Air Asia jet with 161 people on-board lost contact with air traffic control while flying from Indonesia to Singapore.
via Darwin and Local News December 28, 2014 at 03:10PM
A Darwin GP who pursued a patient suffering mental health issues on a dating website has been allowed to keep practising despite facing an ongoing investigation over claims of sexual misconduct.
via Darwin and Local News December 28, 2014 at 11:47AM
NEW details of Martin Place gunman Man Haron Monis’s long-standing grudge against Channel 7 have emerged as it’s reported one of the victims of the siege may have been struck by a police bullet.
via Darwin and Local News December 27, 2014 at 10:51AM
TENS of thousands of people have packed mosques, churches and Southeast Asia’s beaches to remember the 230,000 who lost their lives in the Boxing Day tsunami a decade ago.
via Darwin and Local News December 26, 2014 at 09:28PM
POLICE have released shocking CCTV video that for the first time shows the moment a cop shot dead a black, armed teen at a petrol station. WARNING: GRAPHIC
via Darwin and Local News December 26, 2014 at 07:13AM
PRESENTS. Check. Tree. Check. Turkey ... Little wonder people say the true meaning of the festive season has been lost. But is Christmas really what we think it is?
via Darwin and Local News December 25, 2014 at 12:50PM
REVISIT the Darwin of 1974, when Cyclone Tracy wreaked devastation on families celebrating Christmas — and see how different the city looks 40 years on.
via Darwin and Local News December 24, 2014 at 09:57AM
THE distraught brother of an eight-year-old boy who was crushed to death by a concrete slab has described in harrowing detail the events leading up to and after the accident.
via Darwin and Local News December 23, 2014 at 10:03PM
AFTER 51 days without food an Iranian asylum seeker at Darwin’s Wickham Point detention facility has ended his hunger strike with an electrolyte drink.
via Darwin and Local News December 23, 2014 at 04:42PM
NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson has resigned after revelations that he signed a letter for Lindt cafe gunman Man Haron Monis two years after the extremist was charged with sending offensive letters to the families of slain diggers.
via Darwin and Local News December 23, 2014 at 03:44PM
IT DREW more local and international visitors in 2014 than any other year. We’ve all heard of Uluru, but what else is there to do in the Northern Territory?
via Darwin and Local News December 23, 2014 at 03:36PM
THREE men went to the Sydney suburb of Lakemba with only one thing in mind. The result was a violent confrontation that left a police officer in hospital.
via Darwin and Local News December 23, 2014 at 04:06PM
A DARWIN sauce company was trolled on social media by southerners because its label apologises for Prime Minister Tony Abbott allegedly being an idiot.
via Darwin and Local News December 23, 2014 at 11:48AM
WHILE adults in Manoora are finding it hard enough to stomach Friday’s massacre they are being warned their children are the ones needing the most assurance after the tragedy.
via Darwin and Local News December 22, 2014 at 10:30PM
JUSTIN Osborne waved his arms above his head and shouted a “yeeha” after he bludgeoned a man to death with a sledgehammer in a case of mistaken identity, a court has heard.
via Darwin and Local News December 22, 2014 at 06:12PM
INDIGENOUS Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion will not provide paper evidence about his terminated flight to a Northern Land Council meeting because the booking was “done over the phone”.
via Darwin and Local News December 22, 2014 at 02:06PM
JUSTIN Osborne waved his arms above his head and shouted a “yeeha” after he bludgeoned a man to death with a sledgehammer in a case of mistaken identity, a court has heard.
via Darwin and Local News December 22, 2014 at 11:05AM
Santa may not be delivering new cars to Territorians this Christmas after the Government moved to shut the Motor Vehicle Registry offices from Christmas Day until January 2.
via Darwin and Local News December 21, 2014 at 06:20PM
POLICE have surrounded a house in the Cairns suburb of Manoora where eight children, all siblings aged from 18 months to 15 years of age, have been slaughtered.
via Darwin and Local News December 19, 2014 at 03:53PM
BREAKING: A child as young as 18 months is among eight children killed in a mass stabbing in Cairns. A woman, believed to be the children’s mother is in hospital, and police say she is not a suspect.
via Darwin and Local News December 19, 2014 at 02:00PM
JACQUI Lambie has criticised fellow Senator David Leyonhjelm’s push for more relaxed gun laws in the wake of the cafe siege, asking where his heart is.
via Darwin and Local News December 19, 2014 at 05:57AM
NSW Police have disputed Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s claim that “madman” Man Haron Monis had a gun licence before he launched his attack at Martin Place.
via Darwin and Local News December 17, 2014 at 05:09PM
FROM Rachelle Louise to Baby Gammy, these are the people whose stories stopped the nation in 2014. But what have they been up to since you last read about them? Find out here.
via Darwin and Local News December 18, 2014 at 11:34AM
AUSTRALIA is a “nation of victims” because citizens, like the hostages in the Sydney siege, are unable to properly defend themselves, says a pro-guns Aussie Senator.
via Darwin and Local News December 18, 2014 at 06:01AM
TALIBAN gunmen told students they would be safe before lining them up and executing them in front of classmates, a survivor has revealed. Warning: Graphic.
via Darwin and Local News December 18, 2014 at 05:15AM
FIVE hours of sheer terror dissipated as relief took over for John O’Brien, the first hostage to escape the Martin Place siege. This is what happened inside the cafe.
via Darwin and Local News December 17, 2014 at 01:35PM
INPEX claims sacked workers have been given at least a week’s notice of their demise, despite mounting accounts to the contrary from workers and unions.
via Darwin and Local News December 17, 2014 at 02:27PM
THE PM doesn’t understand it. The NSW Premier is outraged. It seems the system has failed us. This is how Man Haron Monis was able to terrorise a city.
via Darwin and Local News December 17, 2014 at 12:22PM
A GROUP of young offenders have been caught on CCTV ram-raiding the Howard Springs bottle shop and stealing alcohol, cigarettes and a charity tin inside.
via Darwin and Local News December 16, 2014 at 04:54PM
THE Lindt cafe manager who was fatally shot in the Martin Place siege is being praised as a hero, responsible for allowing others trapped in the cafe to escape.
via Darwin and Local News December 16, 2014 at 12:30PM
ONE Christmas enthusiast got a pash from the man of her dreams - a funny, cheeky man who goes by Santa Claus. Unfortunately for her, she didn’t get his phone number.
via Darwin and Local News December 16, 2014 at 12:14PM
THE man who held several people hostage in a Sydney cafe for over 17 hours is a self-styled ‘sheik’ with a long history of run-ins with law enforcement.
via Darwin and Local News December 16, 2014 at 09:25AM
WHILE the country’s attention was rightly focused on the crisis in Sydney, other imporant news was lost in the shuffle. Here’s what you may have missed.
via Darwin and Local News December 16, 2014 at 06:12AM
THERE has been a conspiracy of silence of why there’s been a spike of Queensland UFO sightings yet the Territory UFO tourism industry languishes on its knees.
via Darwin and Local News December 15, 2014 at 11:43AM
ONE of Sydney’s busiest streets and home to a TV network, Martin Place has long been identified as a potential target for terrorists wanting to make a statement.
via Darwin and Local News December 15, 2014 at 10:06AM
BREAKING: Up to 50 people are being held hostage at a Sydney cafe in Martin Place and are being forced to stand in front of windows next to a jihadist flag.
via Darwin and Local News December 15, 2014 at 10:12AM
A MAN from north west Sydney has been taken into custody for suspected terrorism related offences during a raid this morning by counter terrorism units from the Australian Federal Police and NSW Police.
via Darwin and Local News December 15, 2014 at 08:59AM
OLD Telstra and Optus pay-TV cables will be used to roll out the National Broadband Network quicker and cheaper, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull says.
via Darwin and Local News December 14, 2014 at 03:45PM
A MAN wielding a baseball bat allegedly used the weapon to “smash car windows” before hitting a man in the head with it in northern Darwin, police have said.
via Darwin and Local News December 14, 2014 at 02:51PM
THE story of two children swept away from their parents in the Boxing Day tsunami and then reunited 10 years later captivated the world. But is it all a lie?
via Darwin and Local News December 14, 2014 at 12:04PM
A ROAD train driver remains in a critical condition after sustaining burns to 70 per cent of his body after his vehicle collided with another road train in East Arm
via Darwin and Local News December 14, 2014 at 11:57AM
INDEPENDENT MLA Gerry Wood yesterday said the Government’s decision to lift the cap on poker machines was a pay-off to the hotels industry for a $150,000 donation to the CLP at the last election
via Darwin and Local News December 14, 2014 at 11:31AM
A ROAD train driver is in a critical condition after sustaining burns to 70 per cent of his body after his vehicle collided with another road train in East Arm
via Darwin and Local News December 13, 2014 at 12:04PM
SIX public complaints over the Honey Pot’s proposed move to opposite a children’s playground have been received by the Northern Territory Licensing Commission.
via Darwin and Local News December 13, 2014 at 04:52PM
THE Giles Government’s move to scrap the cap on pokies in pubs and clubs effective from January 1 will have dire consequences for the Territory, Labor says.
via Darwin and Local News December 13, 2014 at 04:30PM
LITCHFIELD Mayor Allan McKay has accused the council’s chief executive of forging his signature, as infighting plaguing the council becomes increasingly bitter.
via Darwin and Local News December 13, 2014 at 10:04AM
A 12-YEAR-OLD boy who resuscitated a three-year-old family friend who almost drowned in a waterhole is the national winner of the Pride of Australia Awards.
via Darwin and Local News December 12, 2014 at 03:45PM
IS this the first official photographic evidence of the elusive, much-talked about wandering cock or has this Darwin driver simply taken overcompensating to a new level?
via Darwin and Local News December 12, 2014 at 01:40PM
ONE of Australia’s richest women, Marilynne Paspaley was caught out in a bid to escape NSW land tax by a speech she made in Darwin almost 10 years ago.
via Darwin and Local News December 11, 2014 at 12:43PM
UNTIL the day we make contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life, there will always be speculation, hope and fear about the existence of aliens. This year was no different.
via Darwin and Local News December 11, 2014 at 07:01PM
BEARDS have long had a Christmassy feel, thanks to their close association with Santa. Now you can make your fuzz look truly festive with shiny decorations.
via Darwin and Local News December 11, 2014 at 04:49PM
A MAN fed up with vandals destroying others’ property took the law — and a machete — into his own hands to dish out some “street justice” after the group allegedly targeted his brother’s car.
via Darwin and Local News December 10, 2014 at 05:09PM
EXTREME sleep deprivation. Waterboarding. Rectal rehydration, and threats of sexual assault. We knew the US tortured prisoners, but the full, horrifying truth has only just been revealed.
via Darwin and Local News December 10, 2014 at 07:09AM
A proposed master plan for the Nightcliff foreshore is welcomed by an opposing community group, but the organisation is left questioning why ratepayers’ money is being invested in a liquor outlet.
via Darwin and Local News December 09, 2014 at 05:02PM
ABOUT 20 Australian jihadists have been killed in the Islamic State’s ‘graveyards for the gullible’ since the insurgency began more than six months ago.
via Darwin and Local News December 09, 2014 at 09:13AM
YOUTUBE sensation Zoella has quit the internet as it emerges she didn’t really write the book that made her a more successful author than JK Rowling. Now trolls have forced her offline.
via Darwin and Local News December 09, 2014 at 07:46AM
PARENTS who want to take photos of their own children at public swimming pools in Darwin are now required to gain council approval days in advance as part of a new policy.
via Darwin and Local News December 08, 2014 at 10:30AM
EVERY night John Baylis goes to sleep and prays he won’t wake up. A loving husband, father and grandfather it’s not that he has nothing left to live for it’s that John doesn’t call what he’s doing living.
via Darwin and Local News December 08, 2014 at 12:20PM
A NEW Territory cooking innovation has been described as “bizarre” and “dangerous” by police after a group of Moulden residents were caught cooking eggs over a burning tyre on their driveway.
via Darwin and Local News December 08, 2014 at 08:35AM
A PYROTECHNICIAN is in intensive care after a firework exploded in his face during Christmas celebrations at Carols By Candleight in Darwin’s Botanic Gardens last night.
via Darwin and Local News December 08, 2014 at 10:19AM
THE handmaiden to a guru who had sex with his young followers has revealed she had to drink his urine as a form of contraception, the sex abuse royal commission has heard.
via Darwin and Local News December 08, 2014 at 10:23AM
AUSTRALIANS are turning away from 2014’s trend of borrowing names from popular TV shows like Game of Thrones. But are we moving on to something even worse?
via Darwin and Local News December 07, 2014 at 01:24PM
A DRUNK driver has been busted behind the wheel with a baby on board and another crashed while driving on the wrong side of the road with no headlights.
via Darwin and Local News December 07, 2014 at 12:36PM
THE Department of Health has refused to answer questions over why a remote area nurse accused of fraud and drinking while on shift was not referred to the relevant authorities.
via Darwin and Local News December 07, 2014 at 11:57AM
UPDATE: A MAN charged with the one-punch murder of Joshua Hardy has been refused bail. He is thinking of suing ANZ after being sacked from his job while on remand.
via Darwin and Local News December 05, 2014 at 11:18AM
EMBATTLED Defence Minister David Johnston is under heavy fire on social media over his expensive dining habits, denigration of shipbuilders and the defence force pay cut.
via Darwin and Local News December 05, 2014 at 11:00PM
THE Sony hacking saga just got bigger, with more than 47,000 workers’ private information leaked, including celebrity salaries and their home addresses.
via Darwin and Local News December 05, 2014 at 01:51PM
SOME Territorian revheads are putting their drive and passion for muscle cars into raising much-needed funds to help leukaemia patients across the Top End.
via Darwin and Local News December 05, 2014 at 02:20PM
IT’S been a big year of big phones with everyone from Apple to Samsung to Sony pulling out all stops to garner consumer coin. But which phone takes the cake as the best for 2014?
via Darwin and Local News December 04, 2014 at 05:07PM
MINING executives and political representatives used the convention centre’s underground entrance to avoid a small protest led by Aboriginal traditional owners.
via Darwin and Local News December 04, 2014 at 12:13PM
MINING executives and political representatives used the convention centre’s underground entrance to avoid a small protest led by Aboriginal traditional owners.
via Darwin and Local News December 04, 2014 at 11:53AM
A FIFO worker has revealed how he went from a promising career and owning two properties, to losing everything in a six-month, $130,000 alcohol-fuelled bender.
via Darwin and Local News December 04, 2014 at 06:56AM
FOR Aussie travellers consular staff are saviours in times of need, but it seems not everyone understands their role. Here are 20 bizarre calls they have received.
via Darwin and Local News December 03, 2014 at 04:00PM
Casuarina School Council has taken the extraordinary step of rejecting the Government’s controversial new global budget process, which it says will leave its school $672,000 in the red.
via Darwin and Local News December 03, 2014 at 07:55PM
SHOCKING footage of a father throwing his son over a balcony went viral this week. Does the ‘killing my own kid’ clip prove prank videos have gone too far?
via Darwin and Local News December 03, 2014 at 06:59PM
FROM the moment Phillip Hughes’ coffin was carried into the Macksville Recreational Hall to the moment he was carried out, this was a beautiful occasion.
via Darwin and Local News December 03, 2014 at 05:21PM
LAST year the Government helped more than 15,000 Australians in trouble overseas. Now, its warning those who do illegal or reckless things that they shouldn’t expect assistance.
via Darwin and Local News December 03, 2014 at 01:05PM
SMITHFIELD motorists were greeted with quite the sight on Sunday, as seven Territory blokes all dressed as Santa tried to hitch a ride north for some festive fun.
via Darwin and Local News December 02, 2014 at 05:26PM
RIGHT-to-die doctor Philip Nitschke says a meeting to expel him from the Australian Medical Association NT branch is nothing but a late-notice kangaroo court.
via Darwin and Local News December 03, 2014 at 11:04AM
DARWIN businessman Nick Halkitis is finishing off Movember with an impressive o-mo and the top spot on the Australian individual fundraiser leaderboard.
via Darwin and Local News December 03, 2014 at 11:07AM
JACQUI Lambie has been slammed on Twitter after she interrupted tributes for Phillip Hughes to force a debate on her private bill to raise defence force pay.
via Darwin and Local News December 03, 2014 at 10:30AM
A DRINK-driver was allegedly punched in the face after a family – whose car he accidentally forced off the road – followed him to a house in rural Darwin.
via Darwin and Local News December 03, 2014 at 07:38AM
WHEN Alex Kaczmarek got the phone call telling him his girlfriend had been taken to hospital after a serious car accident he didn’t think things could get much worse.
via Darwin and Local News December 02, 2014 at 08:41PM
AN allegedly drunk man banned from driving after he was filmed on the wrong side of a busy Darwin road reportedly got back behind the wheel and crashed the following day.
via Darwin and Local News December 02, 2014 at 01:48PM