Northern Territory

Former NT police chief Michael Murphy, who has been fired for helping a close friend secure a senior executive appointment, also promoted his mate’s wife and mate’s cousin during his brief tenure. 

The Northern Territory’s top cop has been given his been told to resign after a jobs for mates scandal was uncovered by a corruption watchdog.

Outback Wrangler host Matt Wright is demanding the Northern Territory Police Force produce the original copy of a warrant used to put him under surveillance before his high-profile arrest. 

Veronica Wellings, 39, died on Monday after being taken to Royal Darwin Hospital ‘seriously ill’.

Federal police tracked down an accused drug smuggler allegedly trying to sail to Indonesia after skipping out of a rehabilitation centre thousands of kilometres away.

Three offenders broke into the woman’s home while she was alone.

A 49-year-old man has been charged with murder after police found his 51-year-old partner's body near a river bed.

The roll-out of new bail laws has caused havoc with more than one per cent of the Northern Territory's population now behind bars.

He was raced to hospital with critical injuries.

Millions of dollars is still up for grabs.

Fifty years after almost being wiped out in the Top End, the number of crocodiles is raising alarms about new places the apex predator is lurking.

The Prime Minister has joined survivors of Cyclone Tracy to revisit the place it first made landfall to commemorate 50 years since Darwin was destroyed and more than 60 lives lost. 

People are being urged to ‘stand up’ to help ‘prevent’ the scourge of domestic violence ahead of a feared spike in cases over summer.

A woman and the two-month-old child were rushed to hospital.

‘The dogs were barking, and we got up thinking there was someone on the property.’