The Latest Breaking News from Norrn Territory

The commitment includes $100 million for immediate works on "urgent housing and essential infrastructure" in Northern Territory homelands, where a recent report said hundreds of homes were in disrepair and new builds were critically needed.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has headed to the Northern Territory to detail a $300 million energy spend that would see more than a third handed to gas giants to invest in carbon capture and storage.

Federal Labor will make the controversial basics card optional within the first term of government if it wins the election next month, making a commitment that any broad-based income management should be voluntary.

Birdum was once the busy end of the railway line from Darwin. Now, it's an abandoned ghost town reclaimed by the bush - and it took many secrets with it, when it disappeared.

The Northern Territory government is encouraging the AFL's administration to consider the positive social impacts of a local club over financial viability, in its bid for the next team license.

The federal government is spruiking its $1.5 billion commitment for port facilities in Darwin on the campaign trail. But how the money will be spent, when Darwin already has a port that is owned by a Chinese company, is unclear.

The rate of voter participation in federal elections by people living in remote Indigenous communities has been lower than the national average since First Nations people were granted the right to vote in 1962. In recent years, the rate has been in decline. Rates are lowest in the Northern Territory.

Vulnerable remote Northern Territory residents, including children, could be forced to represent themselves in criminal matters, with Legal Aid no longer accepting bush court files, the ABC can reveal.

People from remote Indigenous communities are sleeping rough in Katherine ahead of medical appointments and surgery, advocates say.

Expansion is designed to grow vast fruit, nut and cotton crops, but environmentalists say it could be disastrous for the region on the WA border

When former opposition leader Gary Higgins agreed to help the Northern Territory anti-corruption watchdog in 2020, he did not know he was being recorded. Now, the matter is being investigated.