THE woman who nearly toppled the Government was attacked as a parasite on her own people after Labor this week sought to staple its former minister's old dirty laundry to her new party, the Country Liberals.

SEX crime police are stumped by the case of a teenager who says she was snatched from a street and molested.

A BOMBING survivor is in intensive care after she collapsed at the Darwin Cenotaph during Sunday's memorial service.

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has reportedly called a leadership vote on Monday in Canberra after Kevin Rudd's shock resignation.

A DEADLY virus has broken out in the Territory and is believed to be widespread.

ONE of Australia's most prolific singer-songwriters flew into Darwin to pay his respects to a leading Territory writer and friend.

PALMERSTON Mayor Robert Macleod will leave his job on Friday afternoon.

PALMERSTON'S deputy mayor and founding bandmaster of the Australian Army Band Darwin is under police investigation for nudity on his property.

A WALK around the $750 million Queen Mary 2 is enough to make your legs ache.

TRAINING surgeon and budding fashion designer Ash Searle has been offered a design contract by Melbourne-based theatre producer Erin Voth after creating a dress inspired by the NT News.

TWO cruise ships will bring thousands of tourists and their much-needed spending money to Darwin when they dock beside each other at Fort Hill Wharf.

THE Darwin pub and club scene looks set for a major shake-up.

ROB Macleod has quit as Palmerston mayor.

A drunk, disqualified driver smashed a car into a tree, seriously injuring his male passenger, police said.

TERRITORIANS made more resolutions than other Australians this year.

A WOMAN escaped with a broken ankle in a horrific single vehicle crash in Central Australia.

MOST NT private schools shouldn't be hurt if Canberra follows through on a plan to means-test non-government education institutions.

TERRITORIANS have been quick to embrace the cash-for-containers scheme.

AN ARTILLERY gun exploded its blank shell, killing the silence.

HOMEOWNERS opposite Fannie Bay racecourse said Darwin Turf Club's plan to build a caravan park on the site stinks - literally.

THE Governor-General Quentin Bryce and the Prime Minister Julia Gillard have both been accused of talking through the minute's silence during the memorial for the 70th anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin.

AUSTRALIA is wrong to commemorate the Bombing of Darwin, a group of left-wing doctors say.

A CRIME spree, a crash and a kava bust are the main events from police rounds.

A WOMAN born on an Indian reservation in Canada is standing in the Darwin council election.

GHOSTBUSTERS have come to the Territory.

AS A SWARM of Japanese fighter planes appeared over Darwin, troops and civilians were going about their daily lives.

LES Penhall was just 18 when the Japanese raided Darwin on February 19, 1942. He was sitting at his desk when the first bombs hit.

POLICE are again calling for help to find what happened to a Territory man who went missing from a hotel in Sydney's CBD.

CHANNEL 7's Weekend Sunrise presenters Andrew O'Keefe and Samantha Armytage came face to face with a couple of huge saltwater crocodiles following the first of two broadcasts from the Top End.

DOCTORS fear that second-rate equipment is putting patients' lives at risk.

MORE than 5000 people attended the memorial for the 70th anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin.

AFTER another 5-0 win by forfeit in December, the Mindil Beach Social Ice Hockey team is back in training.

INCORRECT ammunition, humidity-damaged fuses, and a lack of practice put land-based defences on the backfoot from the get-go, recalls Jack Mulholland.

AUSTRALIA'S Governor-General Quentin Bryce and US Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich have spoken of the historical importance of the Bombing of Darwin at the opening of a new museum.

THREE Vietnamese asylum seekers have escaped from a Darwin detention centre.

A DOG has died after eating a poisonous palm tree sold to a school by a hardware store and nursery.