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The NT government has committed to rolling out a specialist mental health education framework in all of its schools from next year. Tailored to the needs of territory kids, teachers and principals say it helps support the "emotional wellbeing" of students.

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. 

The NT chief minister says there will be a review into the outage, which impacted about 20,000 households across 19 suburbs in Darwin, Katherine and Palmerston on Monday afternoon.

Environmentalists say the planned expansion of fracking operations in the Beetaloo Basin increases the need for water samples to be taken quickly after incidents are reported.

A Katherine resident is concerned about the quality of information collected by government investigators after it took four days for them to get to the site of a Northern Territory fish kill.

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 NT coroner says she is "not at all persuaded" by NT Police's theory for the death of Shane Tapp in 2021, in handing down the findings of an inquest into his death.

Rangers are concerned people are getting too close to crocodiles in Kakadu National Park.

Two ex-principals are among a group of education department fill-ins taking on an eleventh-hour deployment to a Northern Territory primary school.

For more than 20 years, residents and local authorities have been calling for Pigeon Hole to be relocated to a nearby cattle station. The NT government now claims it's listening.

After being evacuated from their homes twice in the past year, residents of Pigeon Hole are calling for their remote Northern Territory town to be moved away off the flood plain.

Police say the violent use of crossbows in the remote NT community of Wadeye could one day be fatal after unrest in the troubled town broke out again during a fight involving up to 100 people on Sunday night.

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. 

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 Northern Territory's major highway has reopened to the general public, bringing fresh fruit and vegetables back to Top End supermarket shelves after days of shortages.

Potential evacuations of remote communities with the help of the Australian Defence Force had been flagged by authorities but NT Chief Minister Eva Lawler says they are no longer required. 

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.

Seven months out from an NT election, Labor's promise to persevere with a treaty sets up a definitive alternative to the CLP. But can either party deliver on their pledges?

The collapse of the forestry investment scheme has left landowners owed millions, as an expert questions why Quintis did not pulp its own stock to reduce oversupply.

Small businesses and residents have been struggling with a spike in property damage and break-ins during the school holidays.

Inside a community's attempts to steer its young people away from criminal choices.

Police allege the truck driver involved in the collision was distracted on his phone before the crash that derailed the train and disrupted the freight route in and out of the Top End. 

Police said fentanyl, a synthetic opioid far stronger than morphine and heroin, posed an "extreme danger" and warned the Katherine community to remain alert. 

Squally thunderstorms and falls of up to 100 millimetres are expected in coastal areas of the Top End and Kimberley region as a later-than-usual monsoon arrives into Australia's northern regions.

A Freedom of Information request has revealed the NT government awarded a $35,000 contract to check whether a green group's report claims about the development of a major cotton industry were correct, false or overstated.