Alcohol Mandatory Treatment centre in Katherine canned following community...
An Alcohol Mandatory Treatment (AMT) centre slated for Katherine has been canned following community outrage about its industrial location.
View ArticleKatherine's plastic wine bottle policy a bandaid solution for alcohol abuse,...
Jenny Duggan picks up so much rubbish that she can guess an empty wine bottle's brand from metres away. The litter collector says Katherine's new plastic bottle policy does not go far enough.
View ArticleViolent offenders in NT should face compulsory tests for drug ice, report finds
Anyone arrested for violent offences in the Northern Territory should be tested to see if they have taken the drug ice, a new report into the drug's impact on the NT recommends.
View ArticleSober drivers in Katherine offered chance to win $500 in NT Police...
An outback town in the Northern Territory is rewarding people who blow a zero blood alcohol reading, giving them a chance to win cash.
View ArticleNT Police handing out discount fuel vouchers to reward sober drivers over...
Darwin drivers who blow under the limit will be given discount fuel vouchers this month, as part of an NT Police bid to reduce drink-driving over the Christmas period.
View ArticleTake-away alcohol consumers waiting 'about three minutes' during licence...
A bottle-shop manager says customers buying alcohol at the weekend were waiting about three minutes longer than usual, under a trial of new licence scanning equipment in Katherine.
View ArticleKatherine plagued by anti-social behaviour amid failing banned drinkers...
The Northern Territory town of Katherine is struggling with anti-social behaviour on its streets due to a lessened police presence and a failing banned drinkers register, its Mayor says.
View ArticleFears ice infiltrating remote Top End community of Wadeye
Northern Territory Police, health services and community stakeholders have met in the remote Top End community of Wadeye, amid a recent spate of health centre admissions linked to the drug ice.
View ArticleHemp industry has high hopes for Top End production as legalisation decision...
The company that trialled hemp in Katherine says the crop could have a big future in the Northern Territory, if it gets government support.
View ArticleNT town residents call for change after six killed walking 25km home from...
Half a dozen deaths have occurred in the past decade on a small stretch of highway, 300 kilometres south-east of Darwin, and residents say they can all be linked to a policy aimed at reducing...
View ArticleAlcohol-fuelled violence in Katherine has reached Darwin levels, police say
The Northern Territory Police say they believe royalty money used to buy alcohol is behind an upsurge in violent incidents, including a series of sexual assaults, over the past few days in Katherine.
View ArticleKatherine sobering-up-shelter intake spikes by 500 per cent as town...
Public drunkenness and violence in Katherine spikes dramatically since police withdrew a permanent presence at the town's bottle shops, with residents reporting "brawling and blueing" on the streets.
View ArticleWoman charged with driving on drugs three times in a week
A woman has been charged three times this week for driving on drugs, with a used syringe allegedly found beside a five-year-old passenger on one occasion.
View ArticleDo Darwin residents really drink more than other Australians?
Having a beer, or several, is both held up as an ideological lifestyle trophy and condemned as a huge source of harm in the community. But is Darwin really that drunk?
View ArticleNT Police did not have power to breath-test woman in her home, judge finds
An Aboriginal woman in Katherine has been breath-tested in her own home by Northern Territory Police despite officers receiving no complaint about her and arrested for being in breach of a domestic...
View ArticleThe Northern Territory remains Australia's haven for unregulated boaties but...
Currently in the NT, there's no need for boat registration or boat licensing, while recreational boaties have no drink-boating limit that applies to them while on the water. And according to the...
View ArticleOne in every 33 people in Northern Territory seeks treatment for alcohol...
Between 6,000 and 8,000 people sought treatment for alcohol problems in the Northern Territory in 2016/2017, a first-of-its-kind study shows.
View ArticleIs the NT kicking its cask wine addiction? Bottle shops lifting their...
Bottle shops in Darwin have eased voluntary restrictions on the sale of cask wine, saying Government policies have made them superfluous. But the move has prompted criticism from police, and a major...
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