Northern Territory

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.

The tropical cyclone is expected to potentially make landfall by the end of the week.

Owning a pet crocodile will be made easier under proposed new guidelines from government in the Top End.

‘Childcare centres need to be held accountable, and I will not hesitate to take action.’

Prison guards who roughly handled a one-legged inmate who had just had a seizure suspected he had taken illicit drugs, an inquest into his death has heard.

A man has been killed and others have been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after a vicious fight on a remote Northern Territory highway.

A man has been found dead in a storm drain in a suburb of an Aussie capital city, sparking a police probe.

Instead of being brought to a prison health centre for a medical assessment, the prisoner was taken in handcuffs and a spit hood to an ‘at-risk’ cell where he was ‘stripped naked and left lying on the floor’.

A deadly flu outbreak has taken 14 lives in the Northern Territory and now doctors are pleading for an urgent new vaccination method.

A judge has found an angry headmaster guilty of four aggravated assaults after he put Indigenous students into choke holds and painfully twisted their ears.

He’s taking home half of the $50 million jackpot from last Thursday’s Powerball draw but this lucky winner already knows what he’s going to do next.

Outback Wrangler host Matt Wright has vowed to appeal his verdicts after being found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice following the fatal chopper crash that killed his co-star Chris Wilson.