Roxanne Fitzgerald

The teenager's lawyer has argued that evidence including CCTV footage, allegedly showing him punching the guards and throwing urine on them, should be excluded from the case on the grounds that it was "unlawfully obtained". 

Elmore, the mining company that runs the Peko iron ore and gold mine in Tennant Creek, reported a loss of almost $24 million last financial year. It has told the ASX it is "insolvent or likely to become insolvent at some future time".

The High Court rules in favour of native title holders in the Northern Territory preventing mining giant Glencore from expanding a critical part of its large zinc and lead mine on the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Just months away from an election where crime will be a pressing issue for voters, the NT opposition leader has a message for young offenders: "If you don't want to have a spit hood put on you, then don't spit on our frontline workers". 

The historic site of the Wave Hill walk-off — a seminal turning point in Australian history — has allegedly been damaged.

More than a year after alleged unpermitted land clearing was uncovered at Claravale Station, the NT government's planning minister says he is taking the matter to court. 

Jared Porch is serving a four-year-and-nine-month jail sentence with a non-parole period of 18 months, after pleading guilty to grooming men and offering them money in exchange for sexually explicit videos that included children.

After a spell of relative calm, the streets of Wadeye — one of the largest Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory – have once again erupted with violence.

The disclosure of information resulted in a number of outlets, including the Australian, the ABC and the NT Independent, publishing articles containing information that had not yet been made public. 

As the NT government sits on a major emissions projection report, experts say the expansion of the NT gas industry could blow out the territory's emissions bill to a "staggering" levels and create problems for Australia's pathway to net zero.

Homeowners are set to face another wet season in houses found to be unsafe in cyclones, as their builder challenges a compensation order in the Northern Territory Supreme Court. 

Based in the tiny Indigenous community of Nauiyu, in one of the most remote corners of Australia, Kieren Karritpul is one of a select few artists from Australia who have been invited to exhibit their work at Colomboscope.

Over the past decade the number of people accessing donor sperms to start a family solo has risen 50 per cent at Australia's largest fertility clinic, despite a national sperm shortage, waitlists and major financial costs.

Workers, who responded to job ads posted online, alleged they were forced to work extensive hours without pay, denied food, water and sleep and subjected to cruel and degrading treatment.

Hundreds of videos and photographs of the man's stepdaughter and his partner were found after the Australian Federal Police raided his home and workplace. 

NT Police arrest three people and take another into protective custody after a fight involving 40 people left a man injured by an arrow.

Thousands of people in northern Australia are facing a distressing few months living on the streets during the wet season, when torrential rains pour down. But one organisation has a plan to build more shelters, if it can get funding. 

Ingrid and her family can't afford to buy bottled water, so when the taps runs a dirty brown, tainted by iron and manganese, they don't drink it. 

Fingerprint expert Jeannie Secrett has been found not guilty of disseminating confidential COVID-19 information in a group chat at the height of the pandemic.

The High Court will this week hear the final appeal from custodians who want to prosecute the Commonwealth over illegal construction work at a sacred site within Kakadu National Park. What can be expected over the next two days?

Police allege the 52-year-old man used a rifle to threaten two people at a property in Darwin's rural area, then shot their two dogs and took the dead animals with him.

An unusual weather phenomenon is taking place in the Red Centre. Central Australia has been in the grips of a severe heatwave this week, baking in temperatures hot enough to warrant warnings from the Bureau of Meteorology. But there's about to be a significant cool reprieve.

As survivors of alleged historical physical and sexual abuse at the hands of foster carers in the Northern Territory seek justice, they say they are battling significant delays and distress akin to "being abused again". 

Tyrone Pascoe, who was 18 at the time of the incident, pleaded guilty to the assault that left a security guard – a father of two — with lacerations across his body.

A Supreme Court judge sentenced the Darwin man to 21 years in jail, describing his conduct as "sadistic". The court heard the victim suffered from a language disorder and her father knew of her vulnerabilities and he ensured she was isolated at the time of the offending.