Lillian Rangiah

People drinking alcohol in public could be fined more than $900 and arrested under new "nuisance public drinking" rules set to become law in the Northern Territory next week.

The national children's commissioner has urged Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro to meet with her before introducing controversial laws to lower the age of criminal responsibility next week.

The UN Rights of the Child committee chair is writing to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese about the Northern Territory's move to lower the age of criminal responsibility, which she says "contravenes" global treaty obligations.

Shoplifting teenagers have been an enduring source of anguish for long-suffering parents and businesses.

Program: AM Presented by The Northern Territory Government's commitment that its new posting and boast law will make the community

Environmentalists and traditional owners have voiced concern about a "dangerous" and "unprecedented" move they say would hand the Northern Territory's chief minister "extraordinary powers" to sidestep environmental approvals.

The Northern Territory government says it is enacting emergency measures across the NT's prisons and police watch houses to address "extraordinary risks" posed by record overcrowding.

Daniel Forssman's life changed forever when a motorbike crash left him paralysed. He's set himself an ambitious goal: to make it to the Paralympic Games.

The Wangany Mala documentary delves into how Yolŋu people from north-east Arnhem Land and Macassans from modern-day Indonesia traded before colonisation.

Native title holders say they are insulted by the NT government's decision to approve a plan to drill nine new gas wells in the Beetaloo Basin before they've decided whether to support the project.