The Latest Breaking News from NT

A cyclone watch has been cancelled for parts of the Northern Territory coast, but authorities say severe weather is still expected as a tropical low develops in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

An environmental group and the Top End's Aboriginal land council are bringing separate lawsuits over a clearing permit they say could damage important habitats and jeopardise sacred Indigenous sites.

A political whirly-whirly has spun from Central Australia into Canberra's Parliament House – now Australia has to once again reckon with the hard reality of alcohol abuse in the nation's red centre.

Content warning: this article contains mentions of racial discrimination against First Nations people, and themes of domestic violence.

Ahead of key meetings with community leaders, an NT senator says it would take time before Indigenous communities opt out of alcohol bans.

Opponents say the public deserves as much input possible into a nationally significant proposal drawing from Singleton Station's record-breaking 40,000 megalitre water licence, after a report found cultural and ceremonial sites will be diminished by its impact on groundwater.

More than 200 Aboriginal people across Central Australia have gathered at an Indigenous-only meeting in Alice Springs to discuss strategies to combat rising crime and community unrest.

Selena Uibo says the NT government remains committed to a treaty with Aboriginal territorians, after it was accused of deliberately delaying the process.

Tensions are rising in Northern Territory politics as the government prepares to bring new alcohol ban laws to parliament.