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Skyrocketing Qantas airfares, axed routes and slashed seats worrying for outback town

Tourism Central Australia is holding Qantas to account for its high cost of flights to and from Alice Springs, which could spell disaster for the livability of the tourism hub.

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Darwin cops the biggest fuel, vegetable increases of any capital city, squeezing Top End household budgets

Households across the nation are being hit by soaring fuel and fresh food prices, but residents in one capital city are bearing the brunt more than anywhere else.

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Feral pigs in Darwin's outer suburbs prompts concerns about Japanese encephalitis

Residents are spotting feral pigs just three kilometres from residential homes in Darwin's northern suburbs, prompting concerns over the spread of Japanese encephalitis.

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Northern Territory police arrest teenager after daylight 'riot' in Darwin CBD supermarket

At least one person has been arrested after a 'riot' at a Darwin supermarket, with authorities connecting the incident to recent violence in a remote community.

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Royal Darwin Hospital reopens dedicated COVID-19 wards amid wave of new infections fuelled by BA.4 and BA.5

The Northern Territory's biggest hospital has reactivated measures last taken in January amid increasing COVID-19 hospitalisations, as healthcare workers themselves contract the virus.

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NT coroner's inquest into hanging death at Darwin Holtze prison facing significant delay, court told

The family of 31-year-old prisoner Bernard Hector, who died at Darwin's prison last year, are disappointed his inquest may not happen until next year.

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Former Darwin resident who defrauded former employers of nearly $90,000 sentenced to two years in prison

Kristy Gall will spend at least three months in prison after being sentenced in the Northern Territory Supreme Court today.

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Darwin mass shooter Benjamin Hoffmann's lawyer withdraws services in alleged 'hot water' prison assault case

Mass shooter Benjamin Hoffmann may be unrepresented in an upcoming court case over an alleged prison assault, after his lawyer withdrew due to ongoing funding issues.

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Darwin shooter Benjamin Hoffmann refuses to accept ultimate responsibility for rampage, as sentencing approaches

Three years after killing four people in a shooting rampage in Darwin, Benjamin Hoffman is edging closer to being sentenced.

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After 15 years of prohibition, the Northern Territory's intervention-era alcohol bans come to an end

After 15 years, alcohol bans imposed on some Indigenous communities during the intervention have come to an end. We speak to community leaders about what's ahead.

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NT gunman's antics disrupt sentencing

Convicted triple murderer Benjamin Hoffmann has disrupted his sentence hearing with a series of rambling accusations about his lawyers and a witness.

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Grandmother's WWII Darwin-Sydney exodus celebrated in school's Indigenous curriculum

Just 10 when she and other Aboriginal children fled Croker Island when nearby Darwin was bombed during World War II, an influential grandmother's story is being kept alive by her grandchildren.

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South Burnett town of Durong at the centre of international cocaine bust

It's a neat-as-a-pin, blink-and-you'll-miss it, quiet Queensland country town. But now Durong is the focus of a massive cocaine bust after police swooped on an industrial drug lab on a rural property.

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Drug courier arrested in Hunter as international cartel busted

A man has been arrested outside Newcastle allegedly carrying cocaine as part of a South American organised crime effort to smuggle drugs into - and distribute them throughout - Australia.

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More strike action for NT prisons

The United Workers Union says prison guards in Alice Springs will walk off the job on Saturday in further industrial action over the four-year pay freeze.

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Australian Federal Police arrest nine people across three jurisdictions in alleged cocaine syndicate bust

Federal authorities have raided homes across three Australian states and territories, seizing cash and finding buckets and utes full of drugs.

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NT Police investigating disappearance of Darwin man Tony Rowe as suspicious, appeal for witnesses

Northern Territory Police say there has been no phone or bank activity from the 36-year-old since he went missing in late May, and they hold serious concerns for his welfare.

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Charles Darwin University returns to north-east Arnhem Land to deliver courses on country

University courses have returned to a far-flung corner of the Northern Territory, in a bid to try and turn around high unemployment rates, and skill people up in remote communities.

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Adelaide couple spends 48 hours on a bus to get home from Darwin after flight cancellation

An Adelaide couple holidaying in Darwin take a 48-hour bus trip home after their Jetstar flight was cancelled, as one bus operator admits ticket sales are on the rise.

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Darwin prison guards strike over wages

About 60 corrections officers have walked off the job in Darwin over the Northern Territory government's public sector pay freeze, a union says.

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How funding cuts are impacting the NT's bush courts, where remote residents access justice

In remote Australia, justice is often delivered by fly-in-fly-out courts. But now some people are being left with no legal representation.

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Darwin doctor Albert Foreman still has a passion for medicine at 91

Dr Albert Foreman discovered a passion for medicine later in life. Now 91, the Darwin practitioner still feels he has more to contribute to the profession.

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Tourists stranded in the NT amid widespread Qantas group flight cancellations

Melbourne locals Erin Watkins and Mick Porter are among hundreds of people stranded in the Northern Territory due to a high volume of recent flight cancellations by Qantas and its budget subsidiary Jetstar.

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Weather and staff shortages causing flight cancellations and delays at Australian airports

Flight delays due to weather and staff shortages have created chaos for families during the school holidays, with the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) renewing calls for an independent tribunal to look at structural issues within the sector.

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NT Health Department preparing to remove hospital heads in Darwin, Palmerston

Departments heads at two of the Northern Territory's largest hospitals will be removed and forced to reapply for their jobs, amid a rise in influenza and COVID-19 cases.

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