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Police blocked off a large portion of the Darwin Waterfront following the discovery of a WWII explosive at the popular Darwin attraction.

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Watch: Bomb experts detonate WWII bomb found at Waterfront

A Darwin construction crew narrowly avoided becoming the latest WWII fatalities, eight decades after the war, after pulling up a 50kg bomb with an excavator. WATCH THE DETONATION.

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Pride Parade takes off in Darwin City, 2024. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Pride without Parliament: Darwin LGBTQI+ parade at new venue

Community members fear one of the Territory’s longest running events has lost touch with its political roots, after the annual Darwin Pride festival bypassed the march Parliament.

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Northern Territory Police have released an image of a unexploded WWII ordnance found near the Stokes Hill Wharf in Darwin City on Tuesday June 25.

Police & Courts

In pictures: WWII explosive shuts down Darwin Waterfront

Police are calling for calm after a WWII explosive was discovered in Darwin. See pictures of the operation to retrieve the “unexploded ordinance”.

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Former Southern Cross Care Tasmania chief financial officer Jara Dean has been appointed as the Northern Territory's new auditor general. Picture: Southern Cross Care Tasmania

Support for new NT financial watchdog after $6.9m pay scandal

The Northern Territory’s new financial watchdog is leaving his posting at Tasmania’s largest aged care operator after a $6.9m underpayment scandal. Find out more.

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Police & Courts

Peter Dunstan aka Cliff Roger Cicolini has been charged with theft and obtaining benefit by deception after allegedly flying off with a Robinson R22 helicopter from a Weddell airfield in June 2021. Picture: 9 News Darwin

Alleged chopper fraudster’s new name

A Katherine man who allegedly flew off with a helicopter which was then not found for almost a year is set to face a jury – but has debuted a new name in court. Latest.

Indigenous Affairs

Indigenous woman Colleen Rosas dropped out of school in year 8 and now she's starting a law degree as a grandmother. Photograph: Che Chorley

Federal Attorney-General steps in amid NAAJA chaos

The Australian and Northern Territory’s top legal officers have demanded that NAAJA open its books and reveal how funding has been spent amid a staffing crisis.

Northern Territory

A Katherine couple were left bemused and confused after an unidentified flying object left a mystery smudge on their window.

Unidentified flying smudge baffles Katherine couple

A Katherine woman has not ruled out the extraterrestrial origins after a humanoid-like smudge appeared on her window. ‘The mystery is not solved’

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NT Breast Cancer Voice representative Natalie Stokes and Breast cancer survivor Belinda Kolstad entering the cage of death at the Crocosaurus Cove, Darwin. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Breast or beast: Why women think a boob check is scarier than a croc

A Territory health worker said many women would rather take a dip with a monster crocodile than book a 15-minute breast check. See why these ‘warriors’ have taken the plunge to make a change.

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NT Children's Commissioner Colleen Gwynne, addresses the media following the report from the internal review into the alleged rape of the toddler in Tennant Creek, NT. Picture: Justin Kennedy

Police, prosecutors defend three-year Colleen Gwynne investigation

The players behind a long-running investigation into an alleged case of nepotism within the Office of the Children’s Commissioner have defended their role after the abrupt withdrawal of the case.

Police & Courts

The Barkly Regional Council Mayor Jeffrey Allen McLaughlin has been accused of growing and supplying cannabis andÂ driving around his hometown while under the influence.Â

Outback mayor faces charged twice in four months

The outback mayor in charge of a slice of the Australia larger than Switzerland, Portugal and Syria combined has returned to court.

Northern Territory

Mark Oats and the croc that almost ate his sock.

‘A croc (nearly) ate my sock’: World-travelling pair takes on NT

A pair of socks have visited some of the most exotic places on earth but when they landed in the Top End, they were almost crocodile food.

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Police & Courts

Lisa Evans and Chris Hill from Uluru Camel Tours, with Rex the camel at their Yulara camel farm, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. Picture: LISA EVANS

Award-winning tour operator cleared of animal cruelty charges

Prosecutors have dropped animal cruelty charges against the owner of Australia’s largest camel farm and multi-award winning tourism operator.

Northern Territory

PICTURES: ‘Crikey’: Croc traps Top End couple

PICTURES: ‘Crikey’: Croc traps Top End couple

Two tourists were trapped in their caravan after a cheeky croc decided to park itself on their doorstep. SEE THE PICS.

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Former Northern Territory News editor Jim Bowditch has just discovered he is a World War II hero - in the United States. Fifty years after his service with a special commando force in Borneo earned him the United States Bronze Star, the US military has tracked down its Aussie hero. Mr Bowditch knows nothing of the search for him that continued for twenty years after the war. Published: 8/2/1995. Page 6.

‘Big Jim’: Crusading editor stood up for the underdog

The term ‘legend in his own lifetime’ is over-used but in the case of crusading editor of the Northern Territory News, Jim Bowditch, it was well deserved, according to a new book.

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