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A woman is dead and two others were injured after a wild night of violent crime in Darwin. 

The federal minister said her staff tried to help the 51-year-old woman after she entered the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Darwin.

Rising aggression towards retail workers has prompted calls for tougher criminal penalties and more training and support from retailers.

The single mum says she feel imprisoned in her own home after tensions erupted in broad daylight outside her home in the Darwin suburb of Moil.

An Arnhem Land politician says there are answers to the dire situation the NT is facing with crime and prisons – and they're solutions that have existed for generations. 

Declan Laverty, 20, was about to finish his shift at BWS at The Airport Tavern in Jingili, Darwin, just before 9pm on March 19 when he was allegedly stabbed to death by an irate customer.

The high-profile death of Declan Laverty sparked waves of anger in the community and swift legislative change in the Northern Territory.

Knife crime and alcohol have been targeted by the NT government in response to the fatal stabbing of...

People who commit knife crime in the NT will have their automatic right to bail revoked after the...

Samara Laverty, the devastated mother of BWS worker Declan Laverty, 20, who died after he was allegedly stabbed during a shift, has shared personal memories of her son.