Local News
17 Jul 09 | IN just over a week Tennant’s skyline will be dominated by a magical big top as the Great Moscow Circus pulls into town.
17 Jul 09 | SHOWGOERS were strapped for cash when automatic teller machines at both banks were inoperative last Friday morning.
09 Jul 09 | A FAMOUS All Blacks player who had taken refuge in Tennant Creek after being expelled from a rugby tour of Europe in 1972 is back in the spotlight.
09 Jul 09 | AN American anthropologist has culminated a 15-year relationship with Warumungu people with a book which details their history.
09 Jul 09 | THE NT Government Department of Planning and Infrastructure’s efforts in repairing the Barkly Highway have been acknowledged with an award.
09 Jul 09 | SIMMERING tensions between residents of Wuppa and Tingkali camps led to the bashing of a man whose skull was fractured during a brawl.
09 Jul 09 | THIS time 30 years ago there was great excitement as the town prepared for the first ever show.
09 Jul 09 | TENNANT Creek’s racing calendar has been cut in half and turf club members are livid.
03 Jul 09 | TENNANT Creek Football Oval erupted in a barrage of noisy drums as trio Christina Atkin, Adam Drake and Sam Foster from Zeal Theatre, Gold Coast, began their performance of The Forwards last Saturday.
03 Jul 09 | A MAN who bashed his old father-in-law with a star picket will spend the next six months in jail.
03 Jul 09 | MINISTER for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, visited Tennant Creek this week to check out progress on the $35 million housing and infrastructure project.
03 Jul 09 | A GROUP of Epenarra artists have returned from Sydney after holding their debut exhibition at the Birrung Gallery.
03 Jul 09 | A TENNANT Creek child has tested positive to swine flu, becoming the town’s first confirmed case.
03 Jul 09 | TERRITORY Day went off with a bang in Tennant Creek on Wednesday.
26 Jun 09 | MELBOURNE'S St Kilda Football Club has selected five boys from Tennant Creek to play in its under 16s and under 17s teams.
26 Jun 09 | IT’S been two months since a bus waiting facility for Tennant Creek patients travelling to Alice Springs for medical appointments was cancelled and there’s no sign of help on the horizon.
26 Jun 09 | A LOCAL girl who is studying in Adelaide has come up with her own way of increasing tourism numbers in Tennant Creek.
26 Jun 09 | THE graduation of 20 indigenous trainees in Ti Tree on Wednesday was important to NT’s horticulture industry, according to Minister for Regional Development, Karl Hampton.
26 Jun 09 | TENNANT Creek remains swine flu free even though the virus is spreading faster in the Territory than anywhere else in the country.
26 Jun 09 | A RECENT survey shows 77 per cent of Barkly businesses have confidence in the region’s future.