Roper Gulf Shire Mayor Tony Jack has welcomed the recent announcement from pacific alumina and the NT Government that they are planning to start construction of a gas pipeline across the top end from Port Keats to Nhulunbuy.
The NT Electoral Commission has released the declaration of the results of the recent By Election held in the Nyirrunggulung Ward. Roper Gulf Shire Town Beswick/Wugularr has won the National Tidy Towns Award for Culture and Heritage whilst the Beswick Solar Lights formed the basis for a...
Anybody who has driven or flown across the Roper Gulf Shire knows how big it is. Horizon to horizon, from the Gulf of Carpentaria to west of the Stuart Highway, from just north of Elliott to the southern edge of Kakadu, from the Queensland border to 100 kls from the East Arnhem coast, which ever way...
Two more deaths on the Central Arnhem Highway in the Roper Gulf Shire region occurred last night and Mayor Jack said “this is a clear indicator that the grog restrictions are not working”. He continued on to say “this is a tragedy and a direct result of poor government policy. When is government...
Beswick’s newly set up solar street lights shone like beacons during the recent flood despite being inundated and mains power being switched off. Shire Services Manager at Beswick Mal Fox said the lights illuminate what was a very dark and potentially dangerous part of the road linking the old and...
The Roper Gulf Shire Mayor Tony Jack this afternoon announced that Roper Gulf Shire has won a five year Tender to deliver the Remote Jobs and Communities Program across the Ngukurr and Numbulwar Region.
The town of Bulman, one of the most remote Roper Gulf Shire towns, will host the next Roper Gulf Shire Council Ordinary Council Meeting on the first of May.
The Local Government Association of Northern Territory (LGANT) welcomes today’s announcement by the Prime Minister that a referendum on constitutional recognition of local government will be held in conjunction with the federal election on 14 September 2013.
The waters of the Waterhouse River rose on the weekend. Twelve properties in the 'old suburb' in Beswick were evacuated to the designated emergency shelter ('new school') over the weekend. A few of these houses were inundated with low levels of water and residents of these properties remain housed...
Major Taylor was born on the 1st January 1911, near Elliott in the Northern Territory, then part of South Australia. In January 2013 he turned 102, a rare age for an Australian and even rarer for an indigenous Australian.
The “black hole” in digital communications in Bulman, a town of around 300 people on the Central Arnhem Highway, is to be discussed at a high level meeting between Telstra, Roper Gulf Shire, Sunrise Health and key service organisations in Bulman this coming Wednesday.
The Roper Gulf Shire again took out the highly coveted award of Territory Tidiest Town in the 2012 Awards, the fourth year in a row for the Roper Gulf Shire. Beswick has now won the award back to back as did Barunga two years in a row in 2009 and 2010.
