Northern Territory

The Prime Minister's department confirms 54,997 penalty notices were issued from July 1 to September 30 last year for participants in the Community Development Programme.

Unemployed Darwin tradies are being evicted from rental homes while properties bought five years ago are increasingly selling at a loss, real estate agents say.

A low pressure system developing off the Northern Territory coast that may develop into a tropical cyclone is expected to bring a downpour of rain and strong winds to parts of the Top End on the weekend, including Darwin.

Escarpment country near Gunbalanya, West Arnhem Land, NT.

The picturesque billabong on the edge of Gunbalanya, West Arnhem Land, NT during the wet season, January 2017.

The picturesque billabong on the edge of Gunbalanya, West Arnhem Land, NT during the wet season, January 2017.

For nearly 40 years, Veronica Januschka and her family have run a small, isolated store in the Northern Territory's Roper region.

For more than seven months a $5.8 million clinic has been unused in the remote community of Ngukurr as negotiations drag out between the Northern Territory Government and a remote health provider.

The Northern Territory's Assistant Minister for Remote Housing declines to join his colleagues in a press conference promoting government spending on housing in the bush.

Paul Holmes à Court's company, Heytesbury Pty Ltd, buys 10 per cent of Australia's largest live export company, Wellard.

A domestic violence order filed by a woman the day before her partner murdered her could have been the catalyst for the violent attack, a prosecutor tells the sentencing hearing of Darren Ashley.

Northern Territory Park Rangers are warning people to stay out of Top End rivers and creeks, after a large saltwater crocodile was pulled from the a waterway in the Litchfield National Park.

Keep River National Park on the Northern Territory and Western Australia border has already received more than its average annual rainfall this wet season.

It’s been a long and difficult fight for acceptance for the sistagirls, or trans women from the Tiwi Islands, and now a group of about 30 are heading to Sydney to show off their own unique blend of Tiwi traditional culture, and to teach the rest of Australia about the Indigenous LGBTIQ community.

Students at Yirara College in Alice Springs have traded books for driving skills with their own high-tech mining truck simulator.

Thirty trans women will travel from the remote islands, north of Darwin, to Sydney to show off the unique Tiwi culture blended with glitz and glamour for the parade.

For Tennant Creek 13-year-old, Boyd Cook, it was a day he'll long remember — kicking a footy with players from the Collingwood Football Club.

It is part of a trial by the Timor-Leste electoral commission giving some expats the chance to vote in the country's upcoming elections for the first time since independence.

Spread across mismatching cabinets, hidden down hallways, and occasionally obscured by errant furniture, the Darwin Nursing Museum is very much an example of history that just crept into the building.

A man who drunkenly bashed the mother of his children with a chair in Darwin's Bagot community and later stabbed her in the face with a steak knife because he felt "slighted", is jailed for more than three years.

A Red Centre cattle station enjoys the benefits of soap made with camel fat thanks to their German cook.

Indigenous land south west of Katherine in the Northern Territory is being offered up for a pastoral lease by traditional owners.

ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie tells a Senate Estimates hearing she is confident the organisation did not breach its charter by cancelling its shortwave radio service.

Dylan Voller calls for more after-hours youth services and says that would stop young people walking the streets of Alice Springs.

Elders from the remote NT community of Maningrida speak out about the unprecedented rate of Aboriginal children being removed from their families.