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Man, 45, charged with multiple offences after alleged violent attack on partner in Tennant Creek

A woman has been taken to hospital with a broken arm and cuts to her face after she was allegedly attacked with a blunt weapon in a Tennant Creek home.

Alice Springs' reimposed alcohol restrictions see crime rate fall

A 45-year-old man has been charged with domestic violence offences after an alleged assault on a woman in Tennant Creek on Wednesday.

Shortly after 7pm police were called to an Ambrose St home where a 45-year-old man had allegedly attacked his partner with a blunt weapon.

The woman was taken to Tennant Creek Hospital with a broken arm and multiple cuts to her face.

Police arrested the man at the scene and have charged him with recklessly endangering serious harm, aggravated assault, being armed with an offensive weapon and two counts of contravening a domestic violence order.

He was remanded to appear in the Alice Springs Local Court on July 10.

Four teens in custody after car stolen from hotel

Four teenagers are in custody after a car was stolen from an Alice Springs hotel in the early hours of Thursday morning.

At about 2.20am a 14-year-old boy and three girls aged 13, 16 and 17 allegedly drove the car out of the Diplomat Hotel carpark on Gregory Tce.

NT Police officers deployed tyre deflating spikes on Gregory Tce at the edge of the central business district and the car was abandoned with the teens allegedly fleeing on foot.

All four were located a short time later with the help of CCTV and were taken into custody.

Earthquake felt across four states and the NT

A remote corner of the Territory has been rocked by an earthquake.

The magnitude three tremor started at 7.42pm Tuesday in Poeppel Corner, a site in the middle of the Simpson Desert where the NT, Queensland and South Australian borders meet.

But shockwaves were felt across the country as stations in NT, SA, Queensland, NSW, WA and Kangaroo Island recorded the quake.

The earthquake had a depth of 10km.

Man held down by intruders as meat freezer ransacked

Three men are on the run after a break-in at a Tennant Creek home on Sunday night that involved a freezer being raided of “large quantities of meat”.

Police were called to the Haddock St apartment at 8.35pm, where it was alleged one of the intruders had held the victim down on his couch while the other two searched for alcohol.

It was alleged two of the men took a large amount of meat from the freezer before all three fled on foot into the rear laneway, adjacent to Ambrose St.

A crime scene was established and detectives from Tennant Creek Investigations attended.

Inquiries are ongoing to identify the alleged intruders and police are urging anyone with information or CCTV to contact police on 131 444, quoting reference number 10388128.

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