Out at Harts Range picnic races: What Covid 19?
By OSCAR PERRI The wrath of Covid felt by many Alice Springs events in recent months didn’t make its way to Harts Range, with thousands camping out for the 74th picnic races. Some racing, rodeo, and...
View Article10 running for Mayor, 17 for eight councillor seats
By OSCAR PERRI The ballot for this month’s council election has been drawn, with the field for mayor extending out to 10 candidates. Current councillors Jimmy Cocking, Eli Melky, Marli Banks and Matt...
View ArticleNetball: Intriguing battles continue
By STEVE MENZIES A day with intriguing games through the grades is highlighted by a KFC A-Grade clash between Rovers Complete Construction in the Pat Gallagher Netball Centre stadium on Saturday last...
View ArticleWill elections finally fix council’s skate park mess?
By JULIUS DENNIS The story of the Alice Springs skatepark is one of missed opportunities: Starting as a story of promised expansion and growth in 2003 it now sits at an unusable standstill after a...
View ArticleNetball: Tempers flare in one point win
By STEVE MENZIES A buzzer beating penalty and resultant goal enabled Federal Club Eastside to snatch a one-goal win against rival KFC A-Grade netball team Rovers Complete Construction on Saturday. The...
View ArticleSingleton water licence for Chinese company to be reviewed
LETTER TO THE EDITOR The ALEC team have been advised that our application for the review of the Water Controllers decision on the Singleton Station licence granting 40 Mega litres per annum for 30...
View ArticleCampaign signs damaged: 4WD vandals, not kids
By OSCAR PERRI Campaign signs along roadsides around town for many of those vying to be mayor of Alice Springs have been vandalised, as the election draws nearer. Mayoral candidate Marli Banks says she...
View ArticleHundreds of deaths feared as Covid vaccination slips
By OSCAR PERRI If the Covid vaccination rate continues at its current rate, it will take until March next year to fully vaccinate the Central Australian Aboriginal population. This is the view of John...
View ArticleCandidate has background in high finance, law & order
By ERWIN CHLANDA Mark Coffey’s CV will take some beating in the election for councillor this month. A town battling to re-ignite its economy could be well served by someone who for four years was...
View ArticleRovers challenged early, but keep top spot
By OSCAR PERRI A dominant start to their Saturday afternoon clash at Traeger Park from the Pioneers, ladder leaders Rovers Football Club looked to have no answers, but found their way back into the...
View ArticleTop four: It’s now for real
By STEVE MENZIES The contest for places in the top four are on in earnest with three games remaining in the KFC Alice Springs Netball Association. There are only nine teams in the seniors, plus the...
View ArticleMaking sense of the rules for two worlds
By ERWIN CHLANDA Amongst the likely business people, public servants, activists and pensioners on the 14th Town Council Michael Liddle – if elected – will be coming with hard earned recognition on both...
View ArticleA career battling the problems with the kids
By JULIUS DENNIS Blair McFarland came into the mayoral field late but says his experience working with the young people of Central Australia, the often pointed to perpetrators of crime, puts him in a...
View ArticleCAAMA debt ‘rearranged and manageable’
The Registrar of Indigenous Corporations, Selwyn Button, has announced the end of the special administration of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA). Special administrators were...
View ArticleZombies, cyborgs and mutants, from the pen of young writers
By OSCAR PERRI Five young Alice Springs creatives celebrated a major milestone on Friday, officially launching their first published works, a series of graphic novels. 20 year old Declan Miller, and...
View ArticleGovernment slammed for silence on remote Covid contingencies
By OSCAR PERRI Independent Member for Araluen Robyn Lambley has condemned the lack of information about actions the government would be taking in the likely event of Covid outbreaks in The Centre’s...
View ArticleJames ready to do his Dash
By JULIUS DENNIS James Dash promises to bring “independent and ethical” thinking to council, should he emerge from the pack of seventeen to claim one of the eight seats at the table. Exactly what that...
View ArticleGovernment stonewalls Covid risk to Alice
By ERWIN CHLANDA and OSCAR PERRI The NT Government is not disclosing details of traffic between Darwin and Alice Springs ahead of a lock-down at noon today of Top End centres including the capital and...
View ArticleWests triumph: 7 winning teams and a draw from 11 games
By STEVE MENZIES It was a good day for Wests Netball Club at the Pat Gallagher Netball Centre on Saturday. Beginning with 11-and-under Wests Zaaras Kitchen at 10am, the club had seven winning teams and...
View ArticleCandidates speak with the Alice Springs News
Here are our main interviews and stories – so far – by our reporters, in the lead-up to the Town Council election on the 28th of this month. A click will take you there … PATRICK BEDFORD: Hands-on...
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