Samantha Dick

The NT coroner says she is "not at all persuaded" by NT Police's theory for the death of Shane Tapp in 2021, in handing down the findings of an inquest into his death.

Kevin Gallagher says the company is "working through" the process for recouping legal costs, after a Federal Court ruled in favour of its Barossa project.

Legal advocacy groups have defended the value of community legal services, as calls grow to defund the Environmental Defenders Office following backlash over its conduct in a Federal Court case.

For more than 20 years, residents and local authorities have been calling for Pigeon Hole to be relocated to a nearby cattle station. The NT government now claims it's listening.

As flooding threatens parts of northern Australia and the eastern seaboard, medical experts have issued another warning — a potential spike in mosquito-borne diseases. 

An emergency warning is issued for the remote community of Kalkarindji as flooding across transport routes results in bare supermarket shelves in Darwin and product purchase limits at some stores.

Santos can now resume laying the pipeline for its Barossa project. But an energy analyst says the project, and others like it, could face further legal challenges without regulatory reform. 

Santos has been granted permission to resume laying an underwater pipeline for its Barossa gas project, north of Darwin, after winning a legal battle against a group of Tiwi Islands elders.

Emergency doctors in Darwin's busiest hospital say difficulty navigating the Northern Territory's new digital health system is threatening patients' safety.

A 19-year-old man whose body was found on a remote road near Alice Springs has been described as an "independent boy" and hard-working mechanic. 

Problem gamblers are being urged to seek help ahead of Christmas, when experts say they may be particularly vulnerable, after poker machines in the Northern Territory raked in $150 million last financial year. 

Northern Territory Police say a 15-year-old boy has died and two other teenagers have been injured in a single-vehicle car crash about 30 kilometres south of Darwin.

The Northern Territory government will seek to urgently pass new laws in parliament this week aimed at reducing alcohol-related violence.

Northern Territory Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has rejected former NT Police officer Zachary Rolfe's request that she stand aside from a coronial inquest examining the death of Kumanjayi Walker.

A 27-year-old man is in custody after allegedly striking two girls and a woman with a vehicle in a remote Northern Territory community.

The expert overseeing care of the Northern Territory's most vulnerable adults has explained why some face living under unnecessary guardianship orders.

An Aboriginal woman's fight for financial freedom has revealed what experts say is a deeper problem of "culturally biased" cognitive exams, as part of the NT's Public Guardian and Trustee system.

The High Court will hold a special hearing in Darwin next year in a challenge over a $700 million compensation claim over land acquired for aluminium mining in north-east Arnhem Land in the 1960s.

A male pedestrian has died after he was struck by two vehicles on the Stuart Highway about 20 kilometres south of Darwin on Friday night, according to Northern Territory Police.

An emergency injunction granted to a Tiwi Islands traditional owner by the Federal Court has halted construction of the project's underwater gas export pipeline for several weeks.

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

The family of Katherine man Shane Tapp say they feel vindicated after the Northern Territory coroner cast doubt over whether NT Police fully investigated the "curious" circumstances surrounding his death.

Rumours, drug-dealing disputes and allegations of a "Katherine underworld" have been laid bare in a coronial inquest examining the death of Northern Territory man Shane Tapp in 2021. 

A coronial inquest into the 43-year-old's death has heard he told a close friend he was in trouble before mysteriously going missing in 2021.

With six Australian states and territories delivering a resounding No vote to an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, young First Nations people reflect on what comes next.