The Federal Government's overhaul of billions of dollars in spending on Indigenous disadvantage is still only in the "early stages" of evaluation, five years after a funding shake-up that was found to be rushed and flawed.

A fight erupts between families at an AFL game in the remote and at-times troubled community of Wadeye, leading to more than 25 people being arrested and flown to Darwin's Holtze prison.

Production at a remote Rio Tinto mine site is temporarily suspended when a union investigation raises safety concerns at the operation.

Ucharonidge Station is the ninth cattle station Consolidated Pastoral Company has sold from its cattle portfolio.

More than two decades since Philip Nitschke set fire to the "disgusting, pathetic" bill overturning voluntary euthanasia in the Northern Territory, the region remains in a stranglehold, banned from even debating the issue.

Four Northern Territory public service executives are being paid more than $200,000 a year to facilitate a planned gas industry that some experts doubt will ever stack up economically, particularly as terminals for importing gas from "wherever's cheapest" secure approval on the nation's east coast.

Harry Bowman has been the face of the Top End's crocodile cruises for more than 30 years, but the time has come for him to say farewell to his toothless old mate — Brutus the giant saltwater croc.

The Northern Territory Chief Minister says plans for a water theme park in Darwin are not dead in the water yet, despite his Government formally rejecting all expressions of interest in the project submitted so far.

A mistake made more than 40 years ago has created a powerful voting bloc that some experts believe will railroad any Territory Government plan to bring its budget back into the black.

A luxury tourism retreat on the edge of East Arnhem Land is facing an uphill battle as waves of plastic trash wash upon its shores, and its owners are doing everything they can to try to limit the environmental impact, and stem the loss of tourists.

Stories of struggle, the Stolen Generations, mission communities and the death of a traditional language: how would you vocalise three generations of Indigenous history?

Atmospheric pollution monitoring sites are underrepresented in the tropics, as most are located in Western Europe or southern latitudes of the southern hemisphere. A new programs hopes to improve the quality of results at one tropical station — by involving First Nation's people.

One of Australia's most remote cattle properties, Suplejack Station, sells for the first time in its 55-year history.

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a group of Aboriginal women to exhibit their work in Europe has almost been derailed by a lack of identification records that would have left the artists unable to obtain a passport to travel to Paris.

Senior Northern Territory police officer Peter Bravos is committed to stand trial after being charged with multiple counts of rape.

For the second year running, a male performance team from Sydney becomes stranded in the desert due to car troubles en route to the Top End.

How did the accused Darwin gunman, parolee Ben Hoffmann, get his hands on a shotgun and allegedly kill four people? Likely with relative ease, according to an expert.

Early bushfires spark community awareness as patrons turn to pubs for emergency refuge.

A key element of the NT Government's budget repair plan is in limbo, with a union saying it has received legal advice that public service executives cannot be forced to sign pay freeze agreements.

The 52-year-old police officer, who cannot be named, is charged with four counts of sexual intercourse without consent in relation to two separate alleged victims.

With skin sores, respiratory tract and ear infections and sore throats common in remote Indigenous communities, experts are urging immediate action to combat the rising rates of antibiotic resistance.

A Senate inquiry in the Northern Territory reveals decomposing bodies are being transported on ageing aircraft without refrigeration, potentially posing a massive biohazard risk.

The nation's smallest capital city has just finished one of the largest and fastest rollouts of "smart" technologies in the country, a move which is drawing warnings from a technology expert.

The Northern Territory Government lifts its three-year moratorium on exploration fracking for onshore shale gas in the Beetaloo Basin, and expects engineering works could resume within days.

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