Daniel Fitzgerald

The Northern Territory Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge over whether the NT government acted lawfully when it awarded one of the largest groundwater licences in Australia's history.

The National Farmers Federation says claimants are unable to put behind them the financial and emotional pain of the unlawful live export ban in 2011, as the government rejects another offer to settle.

Core Lithium has suspended mining operations at its Finniss lithium project near Darwin amid "weak market conditions", with up to half of the site's 300 jobs set to be lost. 

After slowly increasing their stake in Australian Agricultural Company for the past three years, the mining magnates' shareholding increased to 19.5 per cent this week — just under the takeover threshold of 20pc.

Australia will now import all its helium after the only production plant in the southern hemisphere shuts down.

The group from northern Australia's cattle industry has been negotiating with the federal government over the compensation figure for three years, and has twice knocked back an offer of $215 million.

Mining company Rio Tinto is undertaking the largest demolition project in Australia's history, taking apart an old alumina refinery in north-east Arnhem Land with the first scrap metal from the site shipped to Asia. 

Gas company Santos can now push ahead with plans for world's largest carbon capture and storage project. 

Cattle producers, firefighters and Indigenous rangers want action to stop deliberately lit fires, with more than 13 million hectares burnt in the past two months.

Beetaloo Basin's greenhouse gas emissions could be 45 per cent more than estimates in a crucial CSIRO report, which a climate institute has labelled "systemically biased".

Bunderra Cattle Company is fined $18,000 plus a $3,000 levy for taking cattle from an NT station to Queensland without treating the animals for ticks on three separate occasions.

Backburns have been put in place with the aim of stopping the fire before it moves from scrubland into the Barkly's open plains, which are some of the NT's most productive cattle country.

The massive blaze has been burning for weeks and has now caused the closure of the Barkly Highway as it continues to surge through cattle country.

The traditional owners say the practice of gillnetting is having an unacceptable impact on the environment and are pushing to establish a joint management agreement with the NT government.

The Darwin region is forecast to produce about 2.3 million trays of mangoes this year, according to the peak industry body, down from about 2.6 million last season. 

Neil Schembri — who drove in the V8 racing competition in the 1990s — buys a 29,010-hectare cattle and buffalo property, which sits about 120 kilometres south-east of Darwin.

Malaysia has become the second country to suspend live imports from Australia, following Indonesia's claims that Australian livestock have arrived in its ports with the disease.

For a long time a lot of the region's wild-caught barra was sent to southern states for processing, but Darwin's first major fish processing facility aims to cut the distance fresh seafood travels before hitting local plates.

Cattle producers in northern Australia are facing a nervous wait, as authorities scramble to test animals for lumpy skin disease to reassure Indonesian authorities it is not in the country.

An NT Utilities Commission report has found the territory's government has been slow to deal with increasing rooftop solar and the scheduled retirement of gas generators, risking a secure Darwin-Katherine power system.

The Northern Territory government-owned electricity provider plans to buy and on-sell fracked gas from the Beetaloo Basin as issues continue with supply from Eni's Blacktip gas field.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the owners of Beetaloo Station are not owed compensation before gas exploration takes place.

An ageing, rusted oil production vessel is being decommissioned through a $325m federal government contract, bringing with it risks and "opportunities".

Tamboran Resources is one of five companies the Northern Territory government has provided commitments to for land at its Middle Arm development.

Supply issues at an offshore gas field force the government-owned electricity provider to rely on emergency gas deals with LNG exporters to keep generators running.