Darwin News

The validity of the same-sex marriage survey has been called into question by Federal MP Warren Snowdon as NT Police are informed of alleged mail tampering in remote Gunbalanya community.

Traditional owners in Maningrida, 500 kilometres east of Darwin, say they are struggling to feed their families because fish numbers and sea mammals are in significant decline.

As the NT Government's political donations inquiry kicks off, one of the men at the centre of the CLP's Foundation 51 controversy has been appointed to a powerful new position in the party, which some insiders say "couldn't have come at a worse time".

Live-cattle export vessel GL Kaihou, suspended from shipping after its maiden voyage, has been reaccredited.

One of Australia's most famous Aboriginal musicians, Dr G Yunupingu, is remembered as someone who overcame great shyness due to his blindness to skyrocket to international stardom.

Aboriginal elders in the Northern Territory who regularly visit prisoners believe many are not ready to reintegrate into community life upon their release.

A fire near backburning operations in Darwin destroys a property housing up to 150 cars and several boats.

Country football clubs are paying millions of dollars to fly the best players in from interstate and the AFL is struggling to maintain a fair playing field.

Nadeem Turkia and his family fled war in Syria and ended up running a popular food truck in Darwin. Now, they're using food to bridge the cultural divide and teach Australians about their country.

The Top End mango season is one for the record books, according to a packing shed manager in Darwin's rural area.

A boom in the value of black jewfish swim bladders, which are prized as a delicacy and aphrodisiac in Asia, has Top End fishing authorities worried the soaring prices could fuel a black market.

Devised over a decade ago as a way to break into the male-dominated sport of fishing, more than 100 women get out on the water to have a good time, and see if they can get a bite.

Researchers are observing the far eastern curlew, netting them and attaching GPS trackers to the birds in a bid to protect their preferred feeding and roosting sites so they don't die out.

Riders have put on a show in Borroloola to celebrate 50 years of the annual race meet and rodeo that draws characters from across Australia's north.

The prices set under the National Disability Insurance Scheme are not realistic for the Northern Territory and will not cover the costs of quality care in remote communities, service providers say.

While RSLs around the country are going out of business, the Darwin branch is alive and well 100 years after it first opened its doors in the shadow of World War I.

The Northern Territory Government releases details of individual environmental security bond amounts held for nine major mines.

Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner says he is shocked and upset after a video emerged showing a person outside a tour company spraying a hose towards an Indigenous man sitting on a busy footpath in the centre of Darwin.

In an NT first, researchers find that Indigenous adults living in remote communities lack the basic English skills to cope at work or school, and that there are no resources available for those seeking further adult education.

Meet the five-year-old boy who calls the Northern Territory's largest cattle station home.

In 2015 and 2016, one of the world's largest zinc mines paid zero royalties, and now the NT Government is considering changing its purely profits-based mining royalty payment regime.

The Northern Territory's power and water utility is put on notice to resolve an odour issue in some of Darwin's northern suburbs.

The Northern Territory's main conservative party is set to once again be officially known as the Country Liberal Party, more than seven years after changing its name in a bid to freshen up its image.

Warddeken rangers are running what is believed to be a world-first program using traditional and high-tech fire management, and trading the resulting carbon offset credits.

Mr Gunner was referred to police over a suggested link between political donations from the AHA and the Labor Government's new policy limiting the floor size of bottle shops.