Lee Robinson

An Aboriginal corporation in the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek is facing allegations it misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funding. 

A year on from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's visit to Alice Springs, progress on alcohol-related harm and violence remains an uphill battle.

As bike entries open for this year's Finke Desert Race, organisers blame cost of living pressures and fears about crime in Alice Springs for a decline in sign-ups.

Three Central Australians have been recognised for their contributions to the Alice Springs community at an Australia Day ceremony, which also saw 48 new Australians welcomed to the community as citizens.

From searching for missing people in the outback to car crashes and drug smuggling investigations, Michael Potts has lived and worked through some of the most tumultuous yet pioneering years in NT Police history.

Corporate staff working for the NT Department of Education have been put on notice that they may be sent to cover gaps in classrooms due to a growing teacher shortage.

Once part of the fabric of the Australian automotive landscape, the Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon have now mostly been ditched for newer and flashier models, but the iconic rigs still have devoted fans in remote communities.

The airline will launch the thrice-weekly flights next year, becoming the third to announce an expansion to its network in the Northern Territory in recent months.

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.

The NT government first announced it would open expressions of interest for the voluntary buyback of grocery store-based liquor licences in March, as part of suite of measures introduced to curb alcohol-related harm and violence in the territory.

The police union says NT Police is struggling to fill the roster for Operation Drina, set up to target alcohol-related offending and anti-social behaviour in Alice Springs.

A new national report has found Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are 10.5 times more likely to be in out-of-home care than non-Indigenous children.

The organisation's chair accuses the Northern Territory government of "institutionalised racism" over its failure to progress the construction of a new residential rehabilitation facility more than five years after it was green-lit.

As an eighth wave of the virus spreads across the country, health authorities are concerned about vulnerable populations in the Northern Territory.

When composer David Crowe sought to turn raw crime statistics into music, he imagined something dark and menacing. What he got was quite the opposite.

Centrepay is an online tool designed to help people on Centrelink pay for essentials like rent or bills through automatic deductions. But financial counsellors say the government service is instead being misused by some providers to exploit vulnerable Australians.

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.

A public housing tenant from the remote Central Australian community of Santa Teresa has won a High Court bid to sue her landlord for distress and disappointment over the failure to carry out repairs.

A wide-ranging report that investigated misconduct within the council should be made public "in some form", says the newly appointed official manager of the Barkly Regional Council.

An Alice Springs minibus driver has avoided jail after admitting to selling several thousand dollars' worth of alcohol out of his vehicle and charging customers through their stored-value welfare payment cards.

The Local Government Minister says he made the decision because he was satisfied "there are, or may be, serious deficiencies in the conduct of the Council's affairs".

Two senior business executives have appeared in court, accused of an embezzlement scheme against luxury tourism company Voyages that went undetected for months.

Authorities are locked in a dispute over who should pay for streetlight upgrades along one of the Northern Territory's most dangerous roads, Gap Road, where a pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run last month — the second in 18 months.

The NT Supreme Court has ruled the territory government is responsible for supplying safe drinking water to its tenants, in a ruling advocates say could impact Indigenous communities across the country.

The Victorian senator travels to several remote Northern Territory communities, to meet with residents and explain why she is advocating for treaty processes before a Voice.