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In 2021, Telstra faced court for its treatment of First Nations customers. New figures obtained by the ABC show the scale of the problem is much worse than first thought.

While NT residents face return airfares of up to $2,000 to fly interstate, the NT government has faced criticism for announcing cheap flights from the East Coast to Uluru from mid-next year.

Iconic artist Vincent Namatjira was the first Indigenous artist to win the Archibald Prize, with his bold portrait of Adam Goodes. Now, his vibrant portraits will be on display in a very special survey exhibition. 

A senior Indigenous leader criticises revellers for drinking on the sacred 2.7 billion-year-old rock, saying festival organisers and attendees "need to go read a bit of history".       

The Northern Territory police union says the government's plan to fight crime in Alice Springs this summer is an attempt to grab "quick attention", as it raised concerns that a redistribution of police into the town may leave remote communities understaffed.

Leading emergency health specialist Stephen Gourley will head the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, making history as the first rural physician in the top job.

After NT Chief Minister Natasha Fyles this week divested 169 shares in a gas company, the public must be wondering: should NT Parliament follow Canberra in barring politicians from having a portfolio?

Fires ripped through land along the Tanami Road, north west of Alice Springs in March and September, 2023. This footage taken on Amburla station shows the charred mess that was left in the wake of the fast moving bushfires.

Huge bushfires in central Australia have ignited discussions about the role of buffel grass in increasing fire risks ahead of a recommendation on whether or not the plant should be declared a weed in the Northern Territory.

With a team of four lawyers managing a caseload of almost 500 files, Legal Aid NT says crime teams in Alice Springs are struggling under the strain of a lawyer shortage, after NAAJA's decision to stop taking on new criminal matters.

The NT government is in talks with the Commonwealth in a bid to shield its roads from a national funding shake-up that would see it need to pay millions of dollars more per year for road projects.

NAAJA  has announced it will not take on any new criminal matters in Alice Springs for the rest of the year as it faces a mass exodus of lawyers.

One of the country's most prominent legal aid services says it won't take on any new criminal matters for the rest of the year.

A third of the residents at the Old Timers Village aged care home have tested positive to COVID-19. The facility has been locked down.

The Northern Territory coroner has closed a months-long inquiry into the NT's "domestic violence epidemic". The evidence, at times, left her counsel-assisting "speechless". Watch a summary of the inquiry. 

Prominent Aboriginal legal aid service NAAJA has announced it will not take on new criminal matters in Alice Springs for the rest of the year, raising concerns some Aboriginal defendants will need to represent themselves.

Twenty-four residents and four staff at the Old Timers Village in Alice Springs have returned positive tests.

Fifty more police will patrol Alice Springs' streets this summer as part of an NT government "zero-tolerance" plan to prevent a major surge in crime in Central Australia over the holiday period.

Snake catcher Rex Neindorf says recent bushfires have pushed higher numbers of deadly snakes into Alice Springs as they look for food in people's backyards and kitchens.

Ashley Renehan had a dream of opening up the bush to wider audiences, so he reached out to his former colleagues at the ABC for help.

Forget rising costs and endless waitlists, these parents can't get any access to child care at all. And it's fuelling calls for government intervention. 

Nowhere else in Australia can a person living with dementia access Voluntary Assisted Dying. The territory was the first to legalise VAD in 1995, could it again break new ground? 

Ben Hayes says 60 per cent of his vast Central Australian cattle station has been burnt as the Northern Territory reports that an area five times the size of Tasmania has already been scorched this season.

Since 2000, 81 women have been killed by their partners in the Northern Territory. Four of them have been at the centre of a landmark coronial inquiry. The evidence has been devastating and repetitive — but will it spark change?

A group of tourists say they'll never return to Alice Springs after a trip to Uluru ended in a brawl between their driver and a pedestrian, and an hours-long wait on the side of the road.