Northern Territory

Police have urged people to take care around outback swimming holes after a woman drowned at a popular tourist spot.

Days after a man rang emergency services and claimed his partner had been injured in a car crash with a kangaroo, the 33-year-old has been charged with murder.

Ex-tropical cyclone Narelle is set to leave a path of destruction in another state as residents in the Top End wait for flood levels to rise.

Thousands of Aussies are bracing for cyclonic winds reaching up to 130km/h as Tropical Cyclone Narelle makes its way across northern Australia.

Even as he lay on his deathbed, a notorious murderer refused to divulge the whereabouts of a backpacker he shot dead in a crime that shook the nation.

Two major Northern Territory rivers are flooding, with homes inundated, roads cut, supermarket shelves bare and hundreds of people evacuated.

Charles Darwin University Vice-Chancellor Scott Bowman has stepped down following an accreditation issue affecting hundreds of TAFE students.

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.