Alicia Perera

Parts of the Northern Territory have been issued a cyclone watch with Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle expected to make landfall on Groote Eylandt from Saturday as a category three system. 

The Bureau of Meteorology is set to issue a cyclone watch alert for parts of the Northern Territory from tomorrow, as residents attempting to clean up after devastating floods brace for more rain. 

The tropical low that has brought flooding across large parts of the Top End for the past week is moving south-west, with residents near Victoria River warned to brace for heavy rainfall in coming days.

Several homes in the remote community of Daly River have sustained minor flood damage, as waters continue to rise ahead of an expected 14m peak level on Monday.

The Bureau of Meteorology says Tropical Cyclone Fina is expected to reach category four strength while still in Northern Territory waters. 

Tropical Cyclone Fina intensifies to a category three system as it moves away from Darwin.

The atmosphere outside the NT parliament was heavy with emotion on Wednesday night when hundreds of mourners gathered to call for change after Kumanjayi White's death in police custody in Alice Springs last week.

The GEMCO manganese mine has resumed exports for the first time since severe cyclone damage to its Groote Eylandt wharf brought operations to a halt last year.

The Northern Territory's Independent Commissioner Against Corruption, Michael Riches, has resigned from his role, the NT chief minister has announced.

The NT parliament has passed new bail laws on urgency after the fatal stabbing of a Darwin supermarket owner, as the government flags an overhaul of youth justice laws.

The owners of Claravale Farm, who cleared 286 hectares of the property without a land-clearing permit, have reached a settlement with the Northern Territory government. 

A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.

For years, Charles Darwin University has been lobbying for funding to establish its own medical school in the Northern Territory. That dream will now become reality. 

There are fears a lack of communication around the Alice Springs youth curfew could lead to children being punished by police, after multiple residents told the ABC they were unaware of the declaration. 

Three more evacuation flights out of the inundated town of Borroloola are scheduled for Thursday afternoon after more than 100 people were airlifted from the remote community overnight in the wake of heavy rains associated with ex-Tropical Cyclone Megan.

Central Australian communities are being warned to prepare for heavy rainfall and possible flooding as the former cyclone moves west across the NT in coming days.

Tropical Cyclone Megan has made landfall on the south-western Gulf of the Carpentaria coast, with wind gusts up to 200 kilometres per hour recorded at the core.

Michael Burbidge has been fined $15,000 for destroying Chris "Willow" Wilson's phone after the Netflix star's death in a helicopter crash in February 2022, as details of the crash aftermath are made public for the first time.

The Yolŋu and Mayili man died last month at the age of 61, after a life spent advancing the rights and self-determination of Indigenous Australians.

Data obtained through Freedom of Information shows most incidents Darwin private security guards responded to in the past year relate to homelessness and alcohol.

As Australians hit the polls to have their say in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum, here's a look back — in pictures — at how we got here.

The Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation says a "great burden has been removed" after ORIC confirmed the end of its long-running investigation, with no findings made and no actions to be taken.

Seven soldiers from the Australian Army and the Timor Leste Defence Force were taken to Royal Darwin Hospital for treatment following the crash, with three still there as of this evening.

Three of the 20 marines who survived a fatal military aircraft crash on Melville Island north of Darwin remain in hospital, as the recovery of the three marines killed in the crash continues.

With about 90 per cent of Australia's Indigenous languages considered endangered, hundreds of people have gathered at a major event to help save them.