Matt Garrick

A brand new Northern Territory youth detention facility is about to open and accept detainees in Darwin in order to free up beds for adult prisoners at Don Dale Youth Detention Centre.

The Northern Territory's corrections commissioner has revealed $64,000 was spent on a return charter flight to transfer 56 prisoners between Darwin and Alice Springs.

The Northern Territory was already facing the highest debt levels in Australia per capita.

The Northern Land Council received more than $36 million in COVID-19 stimulus funding over a two year period – now questions are being raised about exactly where that went.

After three years as wooden spooners in the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL), the Tiwi Bombers finally hit rock bottom.

Four people believed to be foreign nationals have been found in the remote Northern Territory.

Four foreign nationals who arrived on Northern Territory shores by boat have told the Aboriginal rangers who rescued them they paid $US6,000 ($9,167) each to be taken to Australia.

A 68-year-old man arrested after an alleged domestic violence assault in Katherine last month is set to have the charge against him upgraded to murder following his partner's death in Royal Darwin Hospital.

Former Northern Territory deputy chief minister and mining minister Nicole Manison has accepted a new job with a United States-owned fracking company she recently spruiked while in government.

Truancy officers have begun patrols in the NT, trying to get children to school and issuing fines and compliance notices to families who fail to comply.