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Northern Territory's News
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By Paul Jackson
February 25, 2007 12:00am
Article from: Sunday Territorian
A TURTLE has undergone unusual "surgery" to fix its shell after being hit by a car.
Ten-year-old Shelly's underside was repaired with fibreglass in a one-hour operation by vets at Darwin's Ark Animal Hospital at Yarrawonga.
Shelly was taken to the hospital a few days ago by a man who found her on the side of a ro... Read More
By REBEKAH CAVANAGH
15feb07
THE Territory could be home to a multi-million dollar renewable energy plant -- which would turn green waste into electricity -- by the end of next year.
The environmentally-friendly plant would be the first of its kind in Australia.
It would turn the Top End's green waste and wood residues into bio-oil fuel, which produces electricity, heat and value-added che... Read More
By Tara Ravens
February 12, 2007 06:43pm
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A MAVERICK mining developer has denied in court there was anything unusual about his midnight pegging of a billion dollar uranium site in the Northern Territory outback.
But he admitted his application to enter the land near the desert town of Alice Springs was deliberately withheld f... Read More
The High Court today ruled unanimously that the Northern Territory court had not erred in deciding that Martin Leach, convicted of abducting two teenaged girls, raping one and stabbing both to death, should stay in prison for life with no chance of parole.
Judges described Leach's crimes as horrific and said he had shown no remorse.
The court was told Leach, then aged about 24 and livin... Read More
January 29, 2007 07:32pm
A MAN who went missing in a small dinghy off the coast of a remote Northern Territory community has been found following an extensive sea search.
The 40-year-old man set off in the 5m boat from Port Bradshaw, south of Nhulunbuy, about 4am (CST) yesterday morning, police said.
He left the Dhanaya Outstation, telling a relative he was going to another community loc... Read More
January 29, 2007 11:28am
Article from: AAP
A MAN who managed to escape a police escort while handcuffed in the Northern Territory's remote east has been found in a nearby house.
The 25-year-old man was arrested on Saturday evening for unlawful use of a motor vehicle and driving whilst disqualified.
He ran away while being returned to the Tennant Creek watchhouse after a check-up at the lo... Read More
January 25, 2007 06:19pm
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AN air search has been launched for a Queenslander missing in the Northern Territory outback.
Oswald Orman, 37, was last seen on Saturday night trying to hitchhike along the Barkly Highway near the Barkly Homestead, 210km from Tennant Creek.
Staff at the outback cattle station, in the territory's r... Read More
January 18, 2007 09:44am
THREE Darwin police officers were lucky to escape serious injury after their paddy wagon was rammed in a hit-and-run incident yesterday.
Police were on patrol on the Stuart Highway at Stuart Park at 5.10am yesterday when the driver of a blue Toyota Camry sped out of Duke St before mounting the median strip and slamming into the paddy wagon.
The impact of the c... Read More
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