The Latest Breaking News from NT

Residents are bracing for widespread rain as a monsoon trough inches across the far north with fears of isolated rainfall totals of up to 700mm.

Wild weather is expected to drench parts of northern Australia while bushfires have begun to ease in the west.

Conditions ease south-west of Perth as residents evacuated from Boddington fire on Christmas Day allowed to return

Blanket bans on puberty blockers are the biggest risk to trans children globally, an advocate says, after a second Australian jurisdiction outlawed the drugs.

A corruption investigator has found no evidence of misconduct by senior police over the decision to charge an officer with murdering a young Aboriginal man.

If you arrive at an emergency department (ED) today, you’ll be triaged. That’s a quick judgement about how urgently you need care. Those in crisis are seen quickly, while others may wait hours.

Indigenous people have coexisted with Australia’s vast and ancient groundwater systems for thousands of generations. Their knowledge extends back through deep time, before our current climate and waterways. It offers insights that Western science is only beginning to quantify.

The death of a toddler who fatally choked after being trapped on a fence has led to charges being laid against a childcare centre and three staff.

Despite billions in investment, carbon capture and storage technology ‘should be in no way treated as a climate solution’, critics say

Jess Wilson, Kellie Sloane and Ashton Hurn look to be a welcome change for the party. But they have a mountain to climb to oust their Labor opponents

Australia has been slammed for its juvenile justice laws as UN experts sound the alarm over the growing number of people in prison without a sentence.