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Managers from the NT Department of Corrections knew at least by May that there were serious problems at the Don Dale and Alice Springs youth detention centres, but they did nothing to fix the issues, a royal commission is told.
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A court hears the Melbourne man accused of stabbing a French tourist to death in the Northern Territory has "severe" schizophrenia and has been self-harming in custody.
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"I caused her death" are the first words out of Darren Ashley's mouth as he takes the stand in the fourth week of his trial for allegedly murdering his former partner.
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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce calls for more relaxed restrictions on the controversial Adler shotgun than most states and territories are willing to consider.
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The NT Chief Minister acknowledges some of the decisions he got wrong, but says he is happy the public debate of Labor's first 100 days in power are about decision-making, not scandals and infighting.
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Senior border security officials warn that illegal tobacco smuggling may be fuelling drug trafficking and terrorism fundraising.
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Australian teenagers see mental health as one of the top three issues facing the nation, shortly behind drugs and alcohol and equity and discrimination, according to a new survey.
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The friend of 13-year-old Brisbane schoolboy Tyrone Unsworth, who took his own life last month, says a day before his death he broke down and told her "the kids at school keep telling me to go kill myself".
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A new sexual health campaign is encouraging Territorians to get regular health checks, as the number of HIV cases in the NT double in the past year.
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There are concerns about the number of Australian stroke patients travelling overseas for stem cell therapies, many of which are untested and potentially unsafe.
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Former prime minister Tony Abbott defends his Green Army policy as "good for grass-roots conservation", after reports the Government is set to dump the employment project.
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An Indigenous activist wins part of his racial discrimination suit against the Queensland Government and Police Commissioner over their handling of the 2004 riots on Palm Island, with a court finding police acted with "impunity".
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A man who says he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place fires an assault rifle inside the US restaurant injuring no-one, police and news reports say.
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Human remains found on a property in Queensland's Granite Belt last week are identified as the those of Gold Coast man Jamie Hardgraves, who had been missing for about six months.
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A massive fire in a Pakistani hotel kills at least 11 people and leaves more than 50 people, including a Pakistani cricket player, injured.
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A man who wrote a report into the Northern Territory's corrections system tells a royal commission he was so horrified at what he saw at Don Dale Youth Detention Centre that he alerted authorities to take action before the report was finished.
