An Alice Springs man who tried to complain about how the Health and Community Services Complaints Commission handled his health treatment complaint, instead discovered the review committee meant to scrutinise the commission no longer existed, having been left dormant after Attorney-General Marie-C…

The head of ambulance services at the troubled St John Ambulance NT, Andrew Thomas, has been appointed as the new executive director of Bushfires NT, while the ambulance contractor has said it has brought in former Australian Federal Police commissioner Reece Kershaw to help find its next chief ex…

Cattle station manager David Connolly has been announced as the next administrator of the Northern Territory by Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro, following a period of at least five months where she said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would not approve his selection.

OPINION: Unlike in the past, none of the exposure following the damning NT Ombudsman's report into conditions in our watch houses, and the refusal to let the UN observe, presents any political concerns for the CLP Government who are happy to own it, writes John Lawrence, if anything, it’s seen as …

The taxpayer-funded Darwin Waterfront Corporation, which was thrust into the public spotlight earlier this year for unresolved governance failures, mismanaged conflicts of interest, and nepotistic hiring practices, ran a record $3.3 million deficit last financial year, while the DWC board's chair …

A recent decision by the NT Planning Minister Josh Burgoyne that was not made public, to change some rural area land to allow for smaller blocks, gives the feeling Trumpism has arrived in the Territory, writes Gerry Wood.

Police Commissioner Martin Dole told the former head of public prosecutions that Zach Rolfe should be charged with murder over the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker, but did not have a conflict of interest despite his childhood relationship with the victim’s family, a new ICAC report has found, w…

The 231 names facing criminal courts in the Northern Territory for Thursday, December 18, 2025. This list includes all the charges.

The reward for information that leads to police finding missing woman Angie Fuller has been doubled to $500,000, NT Police said.

Darwin Council will not say if it spent the $126,500 allocated for the annual city Christmas display, that this year involves failing lights, decorations from Christmases long, long ago, and the old Smith Street Christmas tree that appears was only lit for one night.

A 47-year-old man has been charged with murder following a more than three-year-long investigation into the suspicious death of a woman who was first found unconscious on a Katherine street corner in August 2022.

The 249 names facing criminal courts in the Northern Territory for Wednesday, December 17, 2025. This list includes all the charges.

A Darwin-based tree services company has been fined $10,000 following a serious workplace incident that involved an employee attempting to light a cigarette for another worker who was refuelling a work vehicle, causing a fireball that engulfed the vehicle and injured the employee.

Consolidated Pastoral Company has acquired the Beetaloo aggregation of stations in the NT for more than $300 million, making it the largest pastoral sale in the Territory's history.

Seniors and those with disabilities who are recovering from injury and surgery are being turned away from access to the Palmerston Regional Hospital hydrotherapy pool by NT Health, writes Craig Hubbard.

A 27-year-old man has been charged with murder in relation to the suspicious death of his female partner 10 days ago, NT Police said.

A team of scientists say the NT Government is being "misleading, inaccurate and potentially defamatory" by claiming their study that found a major aquifer was drying at an accelerated pace did not include enough years of data, a criticism that follows the government itself in 2022 inexplicably dou…

Public servants have voted to accept the Finocchiaro CLP Government's pay offer, ending the drawn out negotiations over the 2025-2029 enterprise bargaining agreement.

NT Police are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in her 20s early Sunday morning on a street in Alice Springs, before stealing the woman's handbag and fleeing the scene, but did not provide a description.

The 243 names facing criminal courts in the Northern Territory for Monday, December 15, 2025. This list includes all the charges.

Celebrity croc wrangler Matt Wright will spend Christmas in jail for perverting the course of justice but will be out in the new year, after his sentence was partially suspended, while also being issued with a fine.

The 204 names facing criminal courts in the Northern Territory for Friday, December 12, 2025. This list includes all the charges.

A home being constructed from locally sourced termite mound mud bricks and using other sustainable designed principles developed by Warumungu community members is nearing completion in Tennant Creek, with the project aiming to serve as a model for future government-funded housing.

Several 3D-printed firearms and silencers, as well as 3D-printed ammunition and magazines, were seized during a joint police raid at a Nhulunbuy property this week as part of a wider investigation cracking down on privately manufactured firearms, police said.

Darwin Bowls and Social Club plans to develop a RV park next to the current club site in Fannie Bay, with a capacity for 40 vans to be established in three-stages, plans lodged with the government show.

NT Police are warning retailers and the public to be on the lookout for counterfeit $50 and $100 notes circulating across the Territory, after seizing the equivalent of $19,000 in fake cash since September.

NT Police have launched a 10-week operation to address "likely increased activity" in Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and Katherine - presumably criminal activity - over the school holiday period with the new operation set to run until early February.

The 250 names facing criminal courts in the Northern Territory for Thursday, December 11, 2025. This list includes all the charges.

St John Ambulance NT will be given the non-emergency patient transport contract by the Finocchiaro Government without it going to tender the ambulance operator has said, which follows its June claim it was also in direct negotiation with the government over the emergency road transport contract, d…

Virgin Australia has announced it will resume direct flights between Sydney and Darwin which were scrapped in early 2023, but not until June, and they will suspended in January 2027 before beginning again in March that year, in what the airline said was a seasonal operation to "align with market d…

Scientists have name a newly discovered species of limbless slider skink that was found in a Northern Territory wildlife sanctuary at the bottom of the Gulf of Carpentaria, the Australian Wildlife Conservancy has said.

Darwin Basketball Association members have voted for the association to be dissolved, and for Basketball NT to take over running the Darwin basketball competitions, Basketball Australia has said, which follows on from an independent report showing its proposed income streams could breach the sport…

Four days after threatening rolling power blackouts for Top End residents over the holidays, Mining and Energy Minister Gerard Maley held a press conference inside Parliament House on Tuesday to announce his government will "save the Territory" by approving an application from Beetaloo Energy (for…

Leanne Liddle's current role is a big gig - not only does she have to convince police that their workplace is mired in systemic racism, she has to teach them exactly what that means and convince them to reject it - no easy task when you consider the colonial history of Australia, never mind the ti…

A 33-year-old male driver under the alleged influence of meth was arrested in Bakewell by the NT Police's Fugitive Taskforce on Monday afternoon, with police allegedly finding a loaded 12-gauge shotgun, balaclava and gloves in the man's car.

The NT Police's new IT operations system took more than seven years to complete, saw costs blowout by at least $15 million to an estimated $60 million and did not "fully deliver expected benefits", a new Auditor-General's report has found, which it concluded was the result of ineffective early pro…

Former Litchfield mayor Doug Barden was bailed on Monday after spending the weekend in the Palmerston watch house following the NT Police laying 10 charges against him, including aggravated assault, 'choking, strangling or suffocation' and numerous firearms offences.

Northern Territory Uber riders are Australia's most courteous passengers, according to the company's annual "naughty or nice" list for 2025, which assesses and ranks rider ratings in every state.

A Humpty Doo school went into lockdown Monday morning after a 35-year-old man with a crossbow allegedly made threats against the school, NT Police said.

The 248 names facing criminal courts in the Northern Territory for Monday, December 08, 2025. This list includes all the charges.

The Finocchiaro CLP Government is warning Top End residents of possible rolling power outages following cyclone damage to ENI's Black Tip gas production facility, however a Power and Water executive says it's essentially "business as usual" given the Black Tip facility has failed to produce gas on…

The deaths of three Department of Corporate and Digital Development employees, including the suicide of Shaun Joyce that all occurred within a 12-month period, are currently under investigation by the Territory's workplace regulator because of the alleged "psychosocial hazards" that may have contr…

Former Northern Territory administrator, musician, author and Territory icon Ted Egan has died aged 93, his family confirmed Thursday, while the Chief Minister has confirmed a state funeral will be held.

New political donation disclosures have revealed who funded local councillors' election campaigns with a few surprises, including one mayoral candidate raking in more than $50,000 in donations - including money from a Chinese business executive connected to the Landbridge Group - while the other D…

At least two people were initially trapped in a Darwin CBD building Wednesday afternoon after a fire broke out on the 10th floor of the Cavanagh Street structure, but the pair were able to get out with no injuries reported.

The troubled Darwin Basketball Association's financial situation worsened this year, with proposed income streams possibly breaching the sport's national integrity rules, Basketball Australia has said, leaving the NT basketball fraternity to now vote on whether to dissolve the association.

A 44-year-old man has been arrested in Victoria and extradited to Darwin to face one count of murder in relation to the 2020 death of his nurse partner, NT Police said.

The 249 names facing criminal courts in the Northern Territory for Wednesday, December 03, 2025. This list includes all the charges.

The developer behind the proposed 11-storey hotel at the Darwin Convention Centre has announced it will not proceed with the project following strong opposition from Larrakia elders, but the CLP Government has committed to proceeding with a "high-level concept" at the same site anyway.

Charles Darwin University vice-chancellor Scott Bowman's contract has been renewed for another five years, but the university council will not say on what basis the decision was made, while the announcement was made two days before Mr Bowman revealed he had hired a friend and her wedding singer hu…