The Latest Breaking News from NT

A musician, a wildlife carer and a seniors advocate are among those recognised in the NT Australian of the Year Awards.

Grant Ngulmiya Nundhirribala has led the Red Flag Dancers for decades.

The Northern Territory government has inherited a strengthening economy but "pet projects" and department overspends could cause debt to blow out.

The union for Northern Territory prison guards has flagged it will go to the Fair Work Commission to stop inmates being shifted to relieve overcrowding.

The Labor opposition, conservationists and Indigenous groups have expressed shock at the move

The Australian commissioning team at Netflix has had a pretty good run over the past 12 months. In January, the adaptation of Trent Dalton’s novel Boy Swallows Universe proved to be the most successful Australian-made show to that point, scoring 7.6 million views globally in its first two weeks.

After promising it would not incarcerate more people, the NT government has unveiled a plan to increase the number of jail beds over the next four years.

The Labor Party has won a seventh consecutive ACT election.

Country Liberal party says it doesn’t want children in detention but Labor says it’s ‘absolute crap’ that criminalising a child will help them