Northern Territory

Police were called after reports of a group armed with machetes pursuing a young woman and her friends near a Northern Territory hospital.

After promising to fight his guilty verdicts, jailed celebrity crocodile-wrangler Matt Wright’s next move has become a key question.

A winch failure has been flagged as a contributing factor in the death of a worker at a construction site at an outback gold mine.

Intense rainfall has prompted the emergency evacuation of an entire outback town, where a river is expected to top major flood levels.

Australia Day formalities in Alice Springs will go ahead without the mayor, who says the January 26 celebration causes harm to parts of her community.

The boyfriend of Angie Fuller, who vanished in the Outback, is facing charges as NT Police release CCTV of her last confirmed sighting and double their reward for information about her suspected murder.

The grandmother went to have an abscess removed when tragedy occurred.

The sighting of the body of an unidentified man in a Top End harbour has prompted an extensive search including divers braving waters where a croc was seen.

The fallen reality television star will spend tonight behind bars after he obstructed investigations into a chopper crash which killed his Netflix co-star.

The former whistleblower was accused of committing serious acts of violence against the Indigenous children in his care.

Prosecutors want a jail term for Matt Wright, the star of the reality TV show Outback Wangler, after a crocodile-egg hunting helicopter trip turned fatal.

Recovery and clean-up are next on the list for Top End residents after riding out tropical cyclone Fina’s destructive winds and driving rain.

Top End residents have hunkered down for the first cyclone of the season, as they are warned to expect damaging winds and possible flooding.

Residents are on high alert and have been ordered to seek shelter with Tropical Cyclone Fina expected to restrengthen as it tracks toward the coast.

The first tropical cyclone of the season is slowly carving its path towards the Northern Territory, with residents told to prepare for destructive and wild weather.