The Latest Breaking News from Tennant Creek

The mayor of Tennant Creek has vowed to contest all charges after police arrested him for alleged "drug driving" for the second time in less than six months.

The NT's Barkly District is preparing for flooding with ex-tropical cyclone Ellie forecast to dump up to 350mm of rain per day across a vast area.

The heatwave that scorched Northern Australia over the weekend was almost unbearable for people living in Tennant Creek's tin shed Indigenous housing, where residents are calling on the NT and federal governments to speed up building new public houses.

The former manager of a remote post office will serve six months in jail after stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Australia Post.

A tip-off from a US information agency, and an undercover police officer disguised as a girl, helped Northern Territory Police find 15 child sex offenders in one fell swoop.

Northern Territory police say a pharmacy worker stripped a would-be armed robber of his weapon during an alleged hold-up in the outback town of Tennant Creek.

A man is arrested following reports an armed man was threatening staff at the Tennant Creek pharmacy.

For the first time in the Barkly region's history, 15-year-old Nishanaye Thompson can represent her hometown by playing the game she loves.

Alcohol treatment services in the Northern Territory are facing having to cut staff looking after vulnerable Indigenous clients because they're being squeezed between rising costs and stagnant government funding, their peak body is warning.

Teachers at the school say staff are traumatised, students are disengaged and the school environment has disintegrated, with staff unsure if they can carry on in their jobs.

Northern Territory Police allege they have “disrupted an organised crime syndicate” with the arrest of nine people in the outback town of Tennant Creek.