The Latest Breaking News from Norrn Territory

Dreams of statehood were married to beliefs the Northern Territory would one day rival the southern states in population and economic might. So where did it all go wrong?

Environmentalists and traditional owners have condemned the Northern Territory government’s decision to abandon plans to include all mining activities in proposed accountability laws.

For more than two decades, both of Australia's territories have been barred from legislating around voluntary assisted dying. That could be about to change.

Australia's Northern Territory in 1995 became the first place in the world to legalize voluntary euthanasia, but the law was quickly overturned two years later. The new bill seeks to lift the ban.

The Australian Parliament is considering a bill that would lift a 25-year-old ban on two territories legalizing voluntary euthanasia

Virgin Australia is getting ready for summer with 30% off flights to the NT. Here are five things you can tick off while you're there.

‘It’s the global centre of diversity,’ says insect scientist who found 27 species of ant in two days in Kakadu national park

Destruction of Northern Australia's tropical savannas – considered one of the last untouched regions in the world – is increasing at a rapid rate and new draft guidelines aimed at minimising greenhouse gas emissions from land clearing are "taking us in the opposite direction", environmentalists say.

The latest crime figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics paint a sobering picture for the Northern Territory, with the number of family and domestic violence victims growing for the third year in a row.