Matt Garrick

Direct flights between Darwin and China have resumed for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing optimism of a tourism boom for the two countries.

A former Darwin real estate agent charged with assaulting the Northern Territory's then-chief minister with a plate of crepes has tried to justify her actions as a "protest" against COVID-19 rules.

Crocodile wrangler Matt Wright built a television and tourism empire in the Northern Territory, but that's all come crashing down.

The gas-rich Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory has been in development for years — now, the NT government says the gas will finally flow from 2026.

Territorians are being urged to prepare for the possibility of rolling blackouts over Christmas, after damaging winds from ex-Tropical Cyclone Fina forced the shutdown of the NT's main gas supply.

Folk music legend, author and former Northern Territory administrator Ted Egan has died aged 93.

A $100 million luxury hotel planned for the Darwin Waterfront has fallen through, after concerns were raised by Larrakia traditional owners over its interference with a sacred site.

An absconded prisoner has been charged with 15 offences, including strangulation and making threats to kill, after escaping police custody and evading capture for more than 70 days.

A new Royal Darwin Hospital would cost more than $1 billion to build, and likely take a decade or more to deliver. So who has the political bravery to commit?

Darwin has hit fever pitch in its final preparations for the impending arrival of Cyclone Fina, with winding queues at petrol stations, bottle shops and the city's dump.

Tropical Cyclone Fina has been upgraded to a category two system, and is currently sitting just 40 kilometres north-west of Minjilang in West Arnhem Land.

Building company director Jessica Buckley is the fourth person charged with fraud over an alleged $71 million Department of Defence contracts scandal.

Renewable energy company SunCable signs a 70-year agreement with traditional owners and the Northern Land Council to build Australia's largest solar farm in the NT outback.

Crocodile owners whose pets escape and have to be recaptured by rangers could soon face penalties starting at $300, plus another $100 for each hour the reptiles are on the loose.

Australia's aviation watchdog has issued a warning to the sector, after accounts of widespread chopper rule-breaking were aired during the trial of Northern Territory croc wrangler Matt Wright.

An ambitious outback solar project backed by billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes could soon grow even bigger.

Three weeks after an ABC investigation raised allegations against the NT's gambling commission, the government is refusing to answer straightforward questions about what's being done – if anything.

The NT attorney-general's department has taken the extraordinary step of releasing private emails between a top judge and bureaucrats, to try and address allegations of interference.

Supermarket giant Coles is among the parties expected to take part in a coronial inquest into the death in custody of a young Aboriginal man inside its Alice Springs shop earlier this year.

The NT Director of Public Prosecutions has confirmed it will not appeal the non-custodial sentence handed to a young man who fractured the skull of a nine-week-old baby in Alice Springs.

Northern Territory police have defended taking five days to appeal for information about a woman’s death in Darwin’s northern suburbs last month, since alleged to be a domestic violence-related murder.

Martin Dole has been a Northern Territory police officer for nearly 30 years — but as the new commissioner, his most challenging role now lies ahead.

A fatal hit-and-run case in Darwin has exposed deep disparities in the NT’s justice system, say Aboriginal leaders, as the victim’s family speaks out.

The NT government is standing by its de-facto regulation of Australia’s $50 billion online gambling industry, despite allegations that it is too closely linked to the sector.

It’s taken 10 years, blown out by hundreds of millions of dollars, and is still nowhere near becoming operational. Now there are calls for the Darwin ship lift project to be scrapped.