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Silly sausage: traveller returning from Bali fined at Darwin airport after dog sniffs out McDonald’s breakfast in backpack

Zinta the black labrador’s nose didn’t let her down as Australia beefs up airport biosecurity after Indonesian foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

The Guardian - AU · Aug 1, 2022

Darwin traveller fined over undeclared fast food from Bali amid foot-and-mouth disease concerns

A Darwin traveller has been fined thousands of dollars for not declaring fast food from Bali, as concerns grow about foot-and-mouth disease.

ABC News · Jul 31, 2022

How the rising cost of living is squeezing budgets and changing lives across Australia

Tambikos Driss has ditched the airconditioning, kitchen oven and now meat to get by, and he's not alone.

ABC News · Jul 30, 2022

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Man avoids jail after a fatal hit and run in Darwin’s northern suburbs

Darwin man Joshua Maxwell is given a 12-month jail sentence, suspended immediately, on the condition he enter home detention, after he pleads guilty to a fatal hit and run incident last year.

ABC News · Jul 28, 2022

Skyrocketing Qantas airfares, axed routes and slashed seats worrying for outback town

Tourism Central Australia is holding Qantas to account for its high cost of flights to and from Alice Springs, which could spell disaster for the livability of the tourism hub.

ABC News · Jul 28, 2022

Darwin cops the biggest fuel, vegetable increases of any capital city, squeezing Top End household budgets

Households across the nation are being hit by soaring fuel and fresh food prices, but residents in one capital city are bearing the brunt more than anywhere else.

ABC News · Jul 27, 2022

Feral pigs in Darwin's outer suburbs prompts concerns about Japanese encephalitis

Residents are spotting feral pigs just three kilometres from residential homes in Darwin's northern suburbs, prompting concerns over the spread of Japanese encephalitis.

ABC News · Jul 27, 2022

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Northern Territory police arrest teenager after daylight 'riot' in Darwin CBD supermarket

At least one person has been arrested after a 'riot' at a Darwin supermarket, with authorities connecting the incident to recent violence in a remote community.

ABC News · Jul 27, 2022

Royal Darwin Hospital reopens dedicated COVID-19 wards amid wave of new infections fuelled by BA.4 and BA.5

The Northern Territory's biggest hospital has reactivated measures last taken in January amid increasing COVID-19 hospitalisations, as healthcare workers themselves contract the virus.

ABC News · Jul 26, 2022

NT coroner's inquest into hanging death at Darwin Holtze prison facing significant delay, court told

The family of 31-year-old prisoner Bernard Hector, who died at Darwin's prison last year, are disappointed his inquest may not happen until next year.

ABC News · Jul 26, 2022

Former Darwin resident who defrauded former employers of nearly $90,000 sentenced to two years in prison

Kristy Gall will spend at least three months in prison after being sentenced in the Northern Territory Supreme Court today.

ABC News · Jul 26, 2022

Darwin mass shooter Benjamin Hoffmann's lawyer withdraws services in alleged 'hot water' prison assault case

Mass shooter Benjamin Hoffmann may be unrepresented in an upcoming court case over an alleged prison assault, after his lawyer withdrew due to ongoing funding issues.

ABC News · Jul 26, 2022

Darwin shooter Benjamin Hoffmann refuses to accept ultimate responsibility for rampage, as sentencing approaches

Three years after killing four people in a shooting rampage in Darwin, Benjamin Hoffman is edging closer to being sentenced.

ABC News · Jul 25, 2022

After 15 years of prohibition, the Northern Territory's intervention-era alcohol bans come to an end

After 15 years, alcohol bans imposed on some Indigenous communities during the intervention have come to an end. We speak to community leaders about what's ahead.

ABC News · Jul 24, 2022

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AAP · Jul 24, 2022

NT gunman's antics disrupt sentencing

Convicted triple murderer Benjamin Hoffmann has disrupted his sentence hearing with a series of rambling accusations about his lawyers and a witness.

ABC News · Jul 24, 2022

Grandmother's WWII Darwin-Sydney exodus celebrated in school's Indigenous curriculum

Just 10 when she and other Aboriginal children fled Croker Island when nearby Darwin was bombed during World War II, an influential grandmother's story is being kept alive by her grandchildren.

ABC News · Jul 22, 2022

South Burnett town of Durong at the centre of international cocaine bust

It's a neat-as-a-pin, blink-and-you'll-miss it, quiet Queensland country town. But now Durong is the focus of a massive cocaine bust after police swooped on an industrial drug lab on a rural property.

Newcastle Herald · Jul 22, 2022

Drug courier arrested in Hunter as international cartel busted

A man has been arrested outside Newcastle allegedly carrying cocaine as part of a South American organised crime effort to smuggle drugs into - and distribute them throughout - Australia.

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AAP · Jul 22, 2022

More strike action for NT prisons

The United Workers Union says prison guards in Alice Springs will walk off the job on Saturday in further industrial action over the four-year pay freeze.

ABC News · Jul 22, 2022

Australian Federal Police arrest nine people across three jurisdictions in alleged cocaine syndicate bust

Federal authorities have raided homes across three Australian states and territories, seizing cash and finding buckets and utes full of drugs.

ABC News · Jul 21, 2022

NT Police investigating disappearance of Darwin man Tony Rowe as suspicious, appeal for witnesses

Northern Territory Police say there has been no phone or bank activity from the 36-year-old since he went missing in late May, and they hold serious concerns for his welfare.

ABC News · Jul 18, 2022

Charles Darwin University returns to north-east Arnhem Land to deliver courses on country

University courses have returned to a far-flung corner of the Northern Territory, in a bid to try and turn around high unemployment rates, and skill people up in remote communities.

ABC News · Jul 18, 2022

Adelaide couple spends 48 hours on a bus to get home from Darwin after flight cancellation

An Adelaide couple holidaying in Darwin take a 48-hour bus trip home after their Jetstar flight was cancelled, as one bus operator admits ticket sales are on the rise.

AAP · Jul 18, 2022

Darwin prison guards strike over wages

About 60 corrections officers have walked off the job in Darwin over the Northern Territory government's public sector pay freeze, a union says.

ABC News · Jul 16, 2022

How funding cuts are impacting the NT's bush courts, where remote residents access justice

In remote Australia, justice is often delivered by fly-in-fly-out courts. But now some people are being left with no legal representation.

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