Darwin News

The Lions are facing the Hawks in Brisbane and the Demons meet the Crows in the Top End, as the Cats, Dockers and Giants enjoy their respective AFL wins.

The speed limit on the road to one of Australia's most famous national parks is put under review following a series of deadly crashes. But speed has long been a contentious subject in the Territory, and the move has polarised residents.

Amanda Pernechele and her sister Jess Smith face a very real risk of developing cancer, and they're taking to social media in the hope of influencing young women to nip cancer in the bud.

The world's biggest space agency plans to send rockets into space from a site 700 kilometres east of Darwin as soon as next year.

Amenities, wheelchair access and conservation work top the list of requests by visitors to Litchfield National Park if an access fee is introduced.

Children sleeping at home have been woken and arrested in Alice Springs, according to lawyers dismayed at a potential government back down on the use of arrest as a last resort.

A remote Indigenous community has used the weekly barge service in Arnhem Land to ship out 1 tonne of Kakadu plums for the first time.

Despite recent rain, and snow even in the past few days, soil moisture levels remain relatively low for large parts of the east and west coasts — and the BOM's latest outlook doesn't leave much room for optimism.

Pastoralists west of Alice Springs haven't seen this many camels on their station in years, and say their neighbours should be doing more to prevent a boom in the feral population.

Amid international efforts to find a vaccine for the deadly pig virus, Australian authorities and industry are bracing for an outbreak that some pig farmers fear is "inevitable".

It is a giant snail with a voracious appetite and the threat it poses to Australian agriculture is too big to ignore.

A 64-year-old Australian man goes into cardiac arrest while climbing Uluru as tourists overwhelm local accommodation in a bid to tick a dangerous item off their bucket list before climbing the rock is banned in October.

Lance Corporal Hans Sandoval-Pereyra, 21, was injured during a tactical vehicle accident on the weekend and died in the Royal Darwin Hospital yesterday.

This NT farm picked twice as many dates as their previous season, and they're putting much of it down to running their irrigation system on solar power.

Hundreds in the Northern Territory's overcrowded prison system are missing out on programs to address drug and alcohol addiction and domestic violence, because the growth in inmate numbers has outstripped resources.

Taxi driver Reg Kelly will bear the scars of a murder attempt for the rest of his life, but he wants to thank his home town for rallying to his side.

With a horror double-fatality last week that claimed the life of a 21-year old an a seven-year old, as well as two other road deaths in the month beforehand, authorities are searching for new ways to prevent such devastating loss.

As China and the United States play geopolitical tug-of-war on the global stage, it's feeling a little too close for comfort in one pocket of Australia. Many readers have asked the ABC what might happen here if a conflict breaks out in the region.

Fans know her for her bright yellow bow, but today the people of Arnhem Land celebrate Emma Watkins for protecting the longevity of their rare form of sign language.

What does it take to feed our troops? Buffalo skewers, lemon myrtle coated croc and lamb shanks are just a few of the mains on offer.

Australia is making no progress in achieving reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, says a prominent Northern Territory elder. But she says change could be ignited with a simple, heartfelt gesture.

Rangers at Watarrka National Park have come from all over to look after the remote Central Australian country — and they really love their jobs.

Ray Petherick spent over 71 years sleeping under the Territory's stars, becoming a friend, family, and a voice for the traditional owners of 22 clans from Byone Harbour to Port Keats.

He was busted with Australia's largest haul of animal parts, some threatened and endangered, but just a few months later Indian national Keerthi Eswaran was at it again, listing animal parts including an ocelot, chipmunk tails, eagles and turtles on eBay.

A teenager who stole a firefighting vehicle during the height of the Northern Territory's bushfire season has been been fined $200 and handed 100 hours of community service, angering the volunteer bushfire brigade whose equipment was stolen.