Samantha Dick

Northern Territory Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has rejected former NT Police officer Zachary Rolfe's request that she stand aside from a coronial inquest examining the death of Kumanjayi Walker.

A 27-year-old man is in custody after allegedly striking two girls and a woman with a vehicle in a remote Northern Territory community.

The expert overseeing care of the Northern Territory's most vulnerable adults has explained why some face living under unnecessary guardianship orders.

An Aboriginal woman's fight for financial freedom has revealed what experts say is a deeper problem of "culturally biased" cognitive exams, as part of the NT's Public Guardian and Trustee system.

The High Court will hold a special hearing in Darwin next year in a challenge over a $700 million compensation claim over land acquired for aluminium mining in north-east Arnhem Land in the 1960s.

A male pedestrian has died after he was struck by two vehicles on the Stuart Highway about 20 kilometres south of Darwin on Friday night, according to Northern Territory Police.

An emergency injunction granted to a Tiwi Islands traditional owner by the Federal Court has halted construction of the project's underwater gas export pipeline for several weeks.

Data obtained through Freedom of Information shows most incidents Darwin private security guards responded to in the past year relate to homelessness and alcohol.

The family of Katherine man Shane Tapp say they feel vindicated after the Northern Territory coroner cast doubt over whether NT Police fully investigated the "curious" circumstances surrounding his death.

Rumours, drug-dealing disputes and allegations of a "Katherine underworld" have been laid bare in a coronial inquest examining the death of Northern Territory man Shane Tapp in 2021. 

A coronial inquest into the 43-year-old's death has heard he told a close friend he was in trouble before mysteriously going missing in 2021.

With six Australian states and territories delivering a resounding No vote to an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, young First Nations people reflect on what comes next.

A Northern Territory family with a one-month-old baby say they have spent weeks living in a public house overrun with sewage, despite repeated calls for help.

Sex workers across Australia are "watching very closely" as the Northern Territory's progressive anti-discrimination laws are tested for the first time by a Darwin-based sex worker.

Two people have died and a woman is in a critical condition after two separate shootings in Darwin's northern suburbs on Tuesday night, NT Police say.

The new restrictions will be part of a six-month trial, requested by the Gove Peninsula Harmony Group and supported by the Northern Territory government.

Dozens of campaigners across the Northern Territory have gathered to push for more federal government support to combat the territory's domestic violence crisis.  

Natasha Fyles says she is "in a bit of pain" after she was allegedly "given a good whack" with a cream-covered pancake on Sunday. It comes after police charged a 56-year-old woman with aggravated assault over the attack.

The Northern Territory has the highest proportion of Indigenous people out of all the states and territories. This is what they think of the Voice to Parliament referendum.

A tropical Northern Territory town is turning once ordinary buildings and shopfronts into colourful street murals.

Sam Weston has been named the winner of a close by-election for the Darwin City Council, in which half of all enrolled voters failed to participate.

A large bushfire has jumped containment lines to the north and south of the Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, authorities say. 

Crews have been called in from South Australia and three extra fire bombers are on the ground in Tennant Creek to assist with the out-of-control blaze.

Two people are dead and a third is in hospital after a fatal crash on an outback highway in the remote Northern Territory. 

The caucus of official advocates says a national First Nations children's commissioner is needed to address "critically high" levels of disadvantage.