Darwin

DARWIN council has unanimously rejected calls from the NT Police Commander to reduce drinking hours at East Point, suggesting it would not reduce or change any anti-social behaviour.

THE federal government is understood to be looking to fly up to 200 Aussie expats with a cohort of international students travelling from Singapore to Darwin next month.

A DARWIN teacher has captured ­mysterious orb-like UFOs from the balcony of his Waterfront apartment. The sighting, just off the coast of Darwin Port, has left even one of the NT’s top UFO spotters baffled.

A DARWIN airman who allegedly tried to rape his Tinder date’s sleeping housemate when the other woman was too tired for sex has faced the first day of his trial in the Supreme Court.

Walters has taken on the big guns of the corporate world and come out on top. For the past two-and-a-half years Angus has been locked in a trademark dispute with entertainment giants Sony Pictures Television.

STAFF at Royal Darwin Hospital’s mental health ward were too overworked to watch out for escaping patients, a coronial inquest into the death of an escaped patient has heard.

Early build-up rains have dropped 77mm over Darwin since Saturday (including 17.6mm this morning), bringing our daily and monthly total rainfalls to the highest since 1981.

BOOZE restrictions in Darwin will continue for another week, as cops work to tackle alcohol-induced anti-social behaviour and grog-running.

WHEN a child drowns in an unfenced backyard pool in the rural area, it will be too late. That’s why pool fence laws in the Territory need to change so every swimming pool is fenced, by law. There can’t be a choice in this.

Footy-mad Victorians hoping to make it to this year's AFL grand final in Brisbane can give up now or risk a fine. The Health Department has confirmed no one can leave the state for the purposes of fun,