Charmayne Allison

In short: Young people from Alice Springs say racist commentary on a prominent local online community page is making them feel unsafe and fuelling anti-social behaviour.

Young leaders have been called upon to "keep our fire burning" as one of the country's largest Aboriginal land councils celebrates five decades of fierce advocacy for native title rights.

It's been almost a month since Ali and Aaron Clausen pulled their seven-year-old son out of school, swapping the classroom for the open road.

As the sun sets in Alice Springs, dozens of children descend on a tiny park in the suburb of Larapinta.

Bouncing around a tennis court in Alice Springs, 87-year-old Raymond Maher is already dreaming about the future.

The Northern Territory government has announced it will permanently move young people from the Alice Springs Youth Detention Centre to Darwin as part of an "emergency response" to bursting prisons.

Scientists have worked alongside Aboriginal traditional owners to discover an "exciting" new species of lizard in the Central Australian desert.

Traditional owners are hopeful the addition of the popular Watarrka National Park to the National Heritage List will ensure the site is better protected for generations to come.

Northern Territory Police are on the hunt for copper thieves stripping wire from Alice Springs telecommunications pits to sell on the black market.

Alice Springs residents are beginning to doubt a controversial plan to construct an Aboriginal art gallery will go ahead after the Northern Territory government revealed its intention to almost halve the building's size.