Northern Territory

From a desperate search to violent unrest, how the death of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby has exposed deeper failures.

Police have revealed details of the ‘sustained’ bashing handed out to accused child killer Jefferson Lewis after he was found at an Alice Springs town camp last night before his arrest.

A riot has erupted outside the Alice Springs hospital where the man accused of murdering five-year-old girl Kumanjayi Little Baby was taken after he was arrested.

A body believed to be that of a missing five-year-old has been found in Central Australia, with the girl's mum issuing a heartbreaking message to her daughter.

Detectives have seized a number of items from a crime scene linked to the disappearance of five-year-old Sharon Granites, as police warn that anyone helping her abductor will also face criminal charges. 

Police allege a man was seen holding hands with a five-year-old girl just hours before she vanished from a home in Alice Springs.

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.