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BOMB-GATE
The Australian Defence Force was deployed to remove two alleged bombs welded to the front gate of the home of a military enthusiast and ex-RAAF member currently under investigation for a $1.3m fraud scheme and illegal weapons possession. The NT News...
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HEAD-WARMING EVENT RETURNS
People who like the taste and smell of onions are more likely to have a lower risk of blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. University of Queensland researchers have examined taste and smell genes to help determine whether specific foods cause or are...
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BEST EVER BARRA NATS
Taking place less than six weeks after catastrophic, record-breaking floods on the Daly River, the 30th NT Barra Nationals defied the odds and is regarded as one of the best ever held. It was a monumental effort to get the Banyan Farm Tourist Park...
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STEPPING IT UP
The ever-popular NT City2Surf has once again broken records with thousands of early risers up and about to tackle the new course for 2026. A total of 3092 participants took part, 2450 of which tackled the new City of Darwin 13km course from the...
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LAST DRINKS
A court has evicted the owners of Darwin’s iconic Discovery nightclub from their CBD venue and ordered them to pay more than $1.5 million over unpaid loan and lease debts. Deva Darwin, the company which runs Discovery, The Lost Arc bar and Fantasy...
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YOU BEAUTY, GO AUSTRALIA
The Socceroos are the toast of our nation. They’ve sent shockwaves around the world with a 2-0 win over Turkey in their World Cup opener.
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SMOKE ON THE WATER
Tobacco smugglers managed to dump $4.5m worth of black market tobacco on a remote NT beach before making a wild dash for international waters
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TACKLING TUMOUR HEAD-ON
A talented 12-year-old rugby league star who helped his club win a premiership last season is facing the battle of his life after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.
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SHOOTOUT ON THE HIGH SEAS
Suspected tobacco smugglers have brazenly shot at a patrol boat involved in an Australian Border Force operation off the coast of Indonesia. The alleged couriers opened fire when they were being monitored by the Australian Border Force as part of...
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‘LARGER THAN LIFE’
As a family tries to come to terms with the loss of their loved one, there has been an outpouring of grief and sadness with tributes flowing for the motorcyclist, who tragically died during the iconic Finke Desert off-road race. Matthew Bielefeld’s...
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RIDER DIES IN FINKE CRASH
Tragedy has struck as a motorcyclist has died on day one of the 50th anniversary of the Finke Desert Race yesterday. The death was announced about 4.40pm several hours after the leading competitors had crossed the line to complete the first leg of the...
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DOCK AND RUN
Brandt Graham, 44, (pictured) was facing Judge David Woodroffe on Friday morning in relation to his drug and firearms charges when at about 9.50am he allegedly scaled the eight-foot glassenclosed dock and ran from the courtroom. Graham is described as...
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LOCKED IN A NIGHTMARE
David Georgandis remembers the moment he woke up from an eight-week coma in Royal Darwin Hospital kicking and screaming from “excruciating” pain, and no one else in the room reacted. That was when he realised they couldn’t hear him. It was all inside...
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CULTURAL MELTING POT:
Thousands of Territorians flocked to the Darwin Waterfront on Saturday for the annual Harmony Soiree. Now in its 15th year, the Harmony Soiree has cemented its place as one of the Territory’s longest-running and most anticipated multicultural...
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ICONIC NT GREEK FESTIVAL RETURNS
Preparation is in full swing for a weekend of Greek food, dance and culture at this year’s Darwin GleNTi festival. From 10am to midnight on Saturday and Sunday, Bicentennial Park on the Esplanade will come alive with traditional dancing, market...
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BUSH MATTERS
The largest conversation between the bush and powerbrokers starts today, as News Corp Australia launches its 2026 Bush Summit campaign. Regional Australians can have their say on issues that matter most in a new poll, which will help frame debate at...
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EDDIE AND HIS TEAM ALICE
For the past few weeks Alice Springs has been carrying a weight that no community should have to bear. Yesterday we helped bring the town together for a day of healing, and there to help us was the king of the kids, mercurial football wizard Eddie Betts.
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BULLIED TO DEATH
An internal investigation has substantiated allegations Darwin IT worker Shaun Joyce was subjected to inappropriate workplace conduct before his sudden death last year. In a statement issued on Friday, his sister Kara Joyce said she hoped her brother’s...
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ALICE’S PALATE OF BEAUTY
It was a chance encounter by her grandma during a boat trip, which ended up establishing deep ties to Australia for UK artist Anna Dakin and her family. The connection forged on the voyage would end up bringing the Dakins to remote cattle stations in...
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L J’S LOVE FOR ALICE
To LJ Devlin, Alice Springs is not “a dead outback town that nothing happens in and there’s nothing to do”. “Alice is the most vibrant community; there is an event or a festival or an exhibition every single weekend, especially in the winter,” she...
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GUIDING NEXT GEN
An Alice Springs-developed program does more than “keep the fire burning” for one future leader – it’s helping smash stereotypes with the aim of having vulnerable people live a life free from domestic violence. For local resident Connie Shaw, a...
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GIVING TOWN A FIGHTING CHANCE
At the age of 16, Arrernte man Jason Lord was on “a weird rollercoaster” as Australia’s newly crowned number-one boxer. “I was a kid off the streets … I was like weeks or months out from being homeless; street kid, troubled past, all that sort of...
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A SHOW STOPPING CUTIE
Thousands have flocked to the Litchfield Rural Show at its new permanent home, where families enjoyed agricultural events, exhibits and local produce. The show offered activities for the whole family to enjoy, including park rides, a petting zoo with...
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TOP END RACING REIMAGINED
A century old Territory racing tradition is set to be reimagined as horses and entertainment are expected to light up Mindil Beach for the inaugural Go Slow races. In 1918 Darwinites were already racing on the sands of Mindil Beach in what was...
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1000 JOBS BOOST
Construction tenders will be issued within weeks for Arafura Rare Earths’ Nolans mine and processing plant in Central Australia, with work to begin in September. Arafura Rare Earths chief executive Darryl Cuzzubbo said the release of earthworks...
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‘NEED TO DO BETTER’
The Prime Minister has met with the family of Kumanjayi Little Baby in Alice Springs three weeks after the fiveyear-old’s alleged murder. After meeting with little Kumanjayi’s grieving mother and laying a wreath at Old Timers Camp where she disappeared...
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EMOTIONAL REUNION
As tear gas was being deployed, rubber bullets were being fired into the crowd, and rocks were being pelted at police during a riot outside Alice Springs hospital, the image of a police officer hugging an Indigenous woman – grief and pain fixed on...
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PUMP UP THE BASS
As thousands of revellers turned out for Bass In The Grass 2026, the Northern Territory economy flourished off the back of a weekend of top tier music and sport. The Northern Territory’s biggest and longest-running music festival, which took over...
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WORLD’S BEST RACE TO DARWIN
The Top End is in for a huge week of athletics action as international record holders and medallists descend on Darwin for its first Oceania Championships. More than 800 athletes from 20 nations will battle it out at the Darwin track in what is one of...
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POP STAR SURPRISE
Australian singer-songwriter Kita Alexander has delivered a surprise visit to music students at Casuarina Senior College, dropping in unannounced ahead of her performance at BASSINTHEGRASS on Saturday. The Brisbane alt-pop artist known for songs...
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THAT’S NOT A LAKSA, THIS IS A LAKSA
A new era of dining with a fresh take on the Northern Territory’s laksa obsession has arrived in Darwin, with famed Melbourne restaurant Salted Egg expanding to the Top End. The celebrated Flinders Lane venue has opened at Darwin Waterfront, next to...
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TEAM WILL FOSTER TALENT
Gold Coast Suns’ defender Joel Jeffrey said a Darwin-based AFL team would play a strong role in retaining a strong Indigenous player base. It comes as the league launched a First Nations Impact Fund of $300,000 to combat the decline in First Nations...
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SAFETY OVERHAUL
As Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price delivered an impassioned speech in parliament, imploring Australians to wake up to the plight of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory, the NT Government was preparing to deliver major reforms to child safety...
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SUNS MARCH ON IN OVER SAINTS
Darwin’s Gold Coast Suns fans turned out in their thousands at Marrara oval Saturday to see them run all over St Kilda. This proud dad had his hands full with his two young daughters but he could not have been happier with the result.
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BELL OF THE BALL
Chamber of Commerce president NT and prominent businesswoman, Natalie Bell, is the NT News 2026 Woman of the Year, chosen from more than 300 nominations from across Darwin, Arnhem Land and Central Australia. Natalie is the co-managing director of...
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ABUSERS PROTECTED
In the Northern Territory, a decades-old law protects individuals charged with sex crimes from being named unless they plead guilty or face a Supreme Court, which can take years. Now, there’s a call for major change.
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UNITED IN GRIEF
As grief and anger over a little girl’s alleged murder spilt onto the streets of Alice Springs, one image cut through the chaos: a police officer and Indigenous woman embracing, the raw emotion of the moment etched on their faces. Now, one of the...
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BRIGHT SPARKS
The top-ranked public primary school in News Corp’s prestigious list in the Northern Territory is Larrakeyah Primary in the centre of Darwin. The school boasts an average year 5 NAPLAN score of 512 and has around one-fifth of students coming from the...
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33-STOREY TOWER FOR CBD
A national developer wants to construct the Territory’s tallest building – a 33-storey, 110m skyscraper with 135 apartments, 24-hour reception, internal gym and rooftop restaurant with external elevators. Alcoy Investments plans to spend $64m building...
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OUR KIDS, OUR FUTURE
Top doctors have warned the future of Australian children is at a critical crossroads and in dire need of worldleading medical research to reverse a situation where an entire generation’s health is now, for the first time, worse than their...
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NATION’S BROKEN HEART
Standing outside Alice Springs police station on Friday morning, a quartet of local Indigenous men tried to explain the violence that gripped the town the previous night, as even the family of Kumantjayi Little Baby called for calm. One of the men,...
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TAKEN BY A MONSTER
The desperate search for a young girl taken from a home in Alice Springs has ended in tragedy, with the body of Kumanjayi Little Baby discovered on Thursday. The devastating outcome has sparked an outpouring of grief and anger, as the focus now turns...
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SPEAK UP FOR SHARON
Police have urged the community to reveal the location of the man believed to be involved in the disappearance of five-year-old Sharon after discovering child’s underwear at a campsite.
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WE WON’T GIVE UP
There has been no let up and no-one is going to give up in the desperate search to find missing five year-old Sharon Granites. And as police, emergency services, the army and Alice Springs residents banded together scouring tough terrain, it was...
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BRING HER HOME
As the Territory prays for the safe return of five year-old Sharon Granites who vanished from her home, police are searching for a 47year-old male, recently released from prison and with a history of violence, in relation to the disappearance of the...
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THE BUSH DUNNY HERO
A Territory tradie has detailed how he spent an hour ripping apart a remote outback long drop – all in a bid to save a lady who’d fallen through the floor and was “just covered in sh*t”. Alice Springs electrician Riley Sherwood sat down exclusively...
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RETURN FROM THE DUST
After more than two decades, Arltunga Bush Pub and campground have reopened to the public, offering an escape from the bustle of the city amongst the history of the oldest town in Central Australia. Belinda and Brad Seymour (right) spent five years...
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ST JOHN’S LIFE SUPPORT
The NT’s ambulance service has been given a $10m lifeline while negotiations for a new five-year contract continue. Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said the contract would help give confidence to St John staff and reduce wait times.
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HOLEY CRAP
A trip to the Northern Territory Outback turned into a nightmare for one very unfortunate tourist, who was rescued by a passing tradie after spending an ungodly amount of time trapped in ‘deep s#*t’ when the floor of the long drop dunny collapsed
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BUILDING A STRONG DEFENCE
The Northern Territory is set to play a central role in Australia’s future defence posture under the 2026 National Defence Strategy, with key industry stakeholders calling it a “significant” opportunity to drive long-term economic growth. Master...
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MARCH IN A MUD ARMY
Flood-stricken NT business owners have appealed for a Mud Army to help with the clean-up after months of devastation. As the NT Government coordinates its response to the Territory’s wildest Wet Season in living memory, one tourism operator in the...
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BEST OF THE BEST
From trailblazing women who refused to accept “no” as the final answer, to those who have continuously pushed through tiredness and doubt to keep showing up for others, the 40 inspirational Northern Territory women above have been selected as finalists...
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UFO ALERT
For the second time in a week, Territorians have witnessed a hair-raising sight in skies over the Top End, with the latest set of mystery spinning lights sparking unidentified flying object theories. The latest spinning lights, which appeared in the...
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‘UFO ALERT’ MYSTERY OVER DARWIN
As space fever continues to grip the globe following the successful trip of Artemis II around the moon and back, internet theories have run wild in Darwin, the Top End and other northern Australia towns, after accounts of a strange speeding light in...
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HOOK LINE & STINKER
Fishing industry heavyweights have taken aim at the NT government over a plan they believe could see a ban placed on golden snapper fishing, which would decimate the sector.
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OUTBACK THRILLS & SPILLS
Easter weekend was celebrated with bull riding, a bush dance, and a range of old-fashioned outback events at the Aileron Bush Club rodeo, 130 kilometres north of Alice Springs. Despite minor changes to the event — due to flooding, petrol price hikes,...
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LIFE-SAVING APPROACH
Tucked away in Darwin’s Coconut Grove, just off Bagot Rd is a building which has seen a lot of life’s big changes. In some cases this has meant hosting cornerstone moments like weddings and funerals. But staff at the building called Mi Place, run by...
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LIFETIME OF PAIN
A Northern Territory father who held his wife’s body after she was stalked and brutally stabbed by her former boss is demanding answers from the NT Government after her killer was found not guilty.
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BAYVIEW BLUES CHOC FULL OF SWEET
The Easter bunny is about to make the rounds, and chocolate shops around the Top End have channelled their inner Willy Wonka to ensure there is full supply. Local chocolaterie, Bumble Bean Chocolates in Stuart Park has embraced the Easter Spirit,...
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FUELLING THE PAIN
As the Iranian War enters its second month and the nation edges closer to a fuel crisis with WA declaring a state of emergency, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pleaded with Australians to show restraint. While NT Treasurer Bill Yan says we have at...
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Take a ‘Buffalo Uber’
For a century, buffalo have roamed the Northern Territory, clearing the land, causing a ruckus, becoming feral and ending up on plates in pubs. However, the mighty buffalo is set for a major rebrand, one that is sure to give the horse a run for its...
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SURGERY SHATTERS FAMILY
When Khloey Djawas brought her little boy to Adelaide’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital from Darwin she was hoping he would be cured after doctors discovered a golf ballsized brain tumour. But one surgery, 10 days after their arrival, left Malekai...
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‘SOMEONE WILL DIE’
NT Education Minister Jo Hersey (picture) has signalled changes are coming, as a shocking new report reveals Territory principals suffered the most violence in the nation as three in four reported attacks in 2025. Across the nation principals say they...
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HANDS OFF HOSPO WORKERS
A brutal alleged assault on a female hospitality worker outside a popular Darwin nightclub, as well as four other recent attacks, has sparked a debate on allowing staff to arm themselves with OC spray.
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LASTING LEGACY
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains reference and photos of an Indigenous person who has died. An iconic Alice Springs festival that a trailblazing Indigenous leader curated is aiming to honour her...
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VIOLENCE AT EVERY TURN
Darwin hospitality operators have demanded urgent action after a surge in violence and anti-social behaviour in and around their venues. In one alarming incident, staff used a fire hose to break up a violent fight at The Last Supper.
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WAR ON WEATHER
The clock is ticking to cleanup Adelaide River War Cemetery in time for the Anzac Day dawn service. Cemetery manager Robert Thorne showed Lingiari MP Marion Scrymgour and Daly MLA Dheran Young around the flood-damaged facility on Tuesday morning, with...
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NARELLE GIVES US HELL
A teenager helped co-ordinate her family’s dramatic boat rescue as ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle unleashed devastating floods that swamped Adelaide River township homes on Monday. Meawhile, Katherine has emerged relatively unscathed from the system, with...
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BEAST OF BURDEN
Katherine residents bracing for the effects of ex-TC Narelle are still raw from the experience of the last one. Like many preparing for Katherine’s second flood event in a fortnight, Cossack mum-of-two Jennifer Silcock has shared the frustrations of a...
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