Northern Territory

The Top End is in for more wild weather as the Katherine River reaches flood levels, and a crocodile is spotted attacking a suburban bin and escaping into a street drain.

There are calls to expand free meal services across Darwin, after a charity's ad-hoc breakfast program evolves into a first aid and welfare initiative for the homeless, sick and abused.

The United States will send its largest aircraft deployment to Australia as part of the next rotation of Marines to Darwin in coming months, as part of a "more diversified" and "more capable force".

Central Australia is overrun with yellow-winged grasshoppers, but an expert says there is no threat to crops down south.

A foreign policy expert says a top secret CIA document from the end of the Cold War shows just how likely it is that the Northern Territory's Pine Gap joint spy base could be a target.

Territorians should brace themselves for a very wet week, with rainfalls of up to 300 millimetres expected in some areas.

The Northern Territory's economy is losing momentum and slipping in rankings against other Australian jurisdictions according to the latest State of the States report.

There are lessons to be learned from across the ditch as Australia struggles with farm labour woes.

The isolated Aboriginal community of Groote Eylandt left reeling after a recent spate of suicides, will benefit from a $10 million boost to funding for a support service.

Michael Grant makes a rare public statement in defence of the NT judiciary following news reports linking low numbers of youths in detention to a recent spike in property crime.

At any given moment in a clattering Darwin workshop, locksmith Ben Simmons can be found cracking open an old rusting safe brought in by a hopeful treasure hunter — and just once in a while he strikes gold.

A teenage boy who escaped from a cell at Darwin's Don Dale centre says he told guards he was giving up, but then shot a fire extinguisher at them, before they deployed teargas on him and five other children.

The Indonesian beef industry meets with representatives of South American countries to discuss biosecurity trade protocols.

A man is found dead after a suspected crocodile attack at the notorious Cahill's Crossing in the Northern Territory, where he tried to walk across the East Alligator River in actions police have described as "foolish".

NT Police apologise for a lack of consultation on the decision to shut the front counter of the town's police station from 7:00pm to 7:00am.

The group that runs Darwin Airport says a restriction on Dan Murphy's building its first Northern Territory store will put at risk surrounding developments.

A Top End plant nursery owner uses wastewater from a tank full of barramundi to fertilise his plants.

People in Darwin and other parts of the Top End may be about to get relief from recent hot weather, with the Bureau of Meteorology predicting a monsoon trough will start to affect the area within days.

NT Health Minister Natasha Fyles says she plans to ask if the Commonwealth can put up an extra $6 million to support the PET scanner promised for Darwin.

The Human Rights Law Centre lobbies the NT Government to reform abortion laws so women can terminate a pregnancy beyond 23 weeks without a doctor's approval.

An Australian outback tour operator says remote travellers depend on the ABC's HF shortwave radio service.

An Australian charity buys 150 Brahman breeders for its Cows for Cambodia program, which loans cows to poor families.

Professor Simon Maddocks says CDU is a "strong, credible institution" and university completion data does not paint the full picture of challenges faced by the sector in the Northern Territory.

Former Northern Territory ministerial staffer Paul Mossman continues to work in the public service despite being convicted of corruption.

Staff at an outback cattle station enjoy water skiing and knee boarding after heavy rainfall fills rivers.