The Latest Breaking News from NT

The Northern Territory's current Australian of the Year has used a keynote speech at the Garma Festival to call out "racism in all its forms" across institutions including the media, the courts, police and government.

For almost 25 years, a piece of legislation best known for the Liberal politician who brought it into being has prevented the ACT and NT from making its own euthanasia laws.

Campaign director Dean Parkin says the prime minister flagging set referendum question brings ‘level of clarity’

Prime minister uses Garma festival speech to suggest Australians should be asked a simple yes or no question on enshrining a voice in the constitution

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.

Darwin man Joshua Maxwell is given a 12-month jail sentence, suspended immediately, on the condition he enter home detention, after he pleads guilty to a fatal hit and run incident last year.

A by-election caused by the resignation of former Northern Territory chief minister Michael Gunner will be held on August 20.

The Northern Territory opposition has called for a return of the rule banning the public consumption of alcohol within two kilometres of licensed premises.