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After delays and cost blow-outs, the government hopes the expansion will help detainees turn their lives around before returning to families.

If you find yourself in need of a pet peacock, the tiny outback town of Elliott can help. Locals have found a unique solution to deal with about 30 fine-feathered fowls running wild in the town.

As the coronial inquest into the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker resumes today, lawyers for former NT Police officer Zachary Rolfe have foreshadowed a series of objections he will raise when he takes the stand.

The Goulburn Islands are a haven for endangered turtles, and as climate change causes sea levels to rise rangers are worried erosion is causing the turtle numbers to decline.

Australians know they are accepting a certain level of risk every time they step onto a sporting field. But when playing sport leads to death, society's tolerance and the sport's social licence is tested.   

Lia Finocchiaro says Joshua Burgoyne remains a 'critical part' of her shadow cabinet regardless of the outcome of his criminal trial.

The capacity of rooftop solar in Australia will eclipse the country's entire electricity demand in coming decades, according to a report that charts the technology's rise.

The widow of Netflix star Chris "Willow" Wilson is seeking to freeze Matt Wright's assets as the Federal Court considers her bid to personally add the celebrity crocodile wrangler to a civil lawsuit over her husband's death.

The federal government has faced questioning over whether millions of dollars of public funds that have been handed to oil and gas companies are "valid and legal". 

Braitling MLA Josh Burgoyne, who was in the car with his pregnant wife, says the charges have come as a shock.

A crisis unfolding inside Northern Territory Aboriginal legal aid service NAAJA is leading to a severe shortage of lawyers in Central Australia.

In Ukraine, formerly one of Europe's biggest dairy suppliers, 50 per cent of the industry is gone, 200,000 cows have been bombed, and farmers are very much on the front line.

NT's Country Liberal Party has confirmed Alice Springs MLA Joshua Burgoyne is under investigation by police over a traffic accident in August 2023. 

Communities in the Gulf are bracing for another cyclone as it makes landfall across the border in the Northern Territory. 

The chief executive of a Northern Territory land council has roles at two entities that are beneficiaries to $24 million in royalties distributed by the council.

Communities from Port Roper to Burketown are being warned to prepare for severe weather as the Bureau of Meteorology forecasts a moderate chance of a tropical low developing into a cyclone over the region.

One of the longest serving politicians in Northern Territory parliament, Kezia Purick, has announced she will retire from politics at the upcoming election.

Darwin residents report sharp increases in electricity bills after the installation of smart meters at their properties.

Another chief executive resigns at the beleaguered Barkly Regional Council based in Tennant Creek, which is currently under investigation over governance concerns.

Eva Lawler says she could not recall Chansey Paech's conflict of interest notice because she was not chair at the time.

Flood watches have been issued for some parts of the Top End as wild weather continues to lash the region.

Communities from Port Roper to Burketown are being warned to prepare for severe weather as the Bureau of Meteorology forecasts a 40 per cent chance of a tropical low developing into a cyclone over the region.

A series of "subtle" changes in a popular, athletic, and intelligent 13-year-old Darwin student may have been a sign that her mental health was suffering before her death in 2022, the NT coroner has heard.

The NT's Independent Commissioner Against Corruption has reminded people with real or perceived conflicts of interest "to take no part in the performance of duties to which there is a conflict".

Throughout 13 years of schooling, Dylan Ferris watched in frustration as most of his classmates learned to read fluently without him. He says it doesn't have to be this way.