Tilda Colling

Hobart's drag kings say the closure of a gay bar pushed their performances into heteronormative spaces and a surprisingly accepting Tasmanian community.

As the NT's CLP government remains firm on its tough-on-crime agenda and rebuilding of the economy, the first week of budget estimates saw the government questioned around prison lockdowns, police policy and housing. 

The Northern Territory's only youth mental health inpatient ward failed to meet 16 national safety standards, documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws have revealed.

Beer industry stakeholders say it's a "sad day for the history of Tassie beer" after the announcement Boag's brewery in Launceston will close.

Jose da Costa's escape from Indonesian-occupied East Timor in 1995 has been detailed in a new book launched at the Northern Territory Writers Festival this weekend.

After the Taliban banned women's sport in Afghanistan, most of the women's cricket team ended up relocating to Australia. Now, they're on tour in the Northern Territory — "a happy ending" after a traumatic journey.

The Northern Territory's ambulance service is considering introducing police-style body-worn cameras after the arrest of alleged murderer Jefferson Lewis led to rioting in Alice Springs last month.

Northern Territory Police will be able to hold children in watch houses for up to 48 hours and question them without an adult present under planned changes to the Youth Justice Act.

A 49-year-old man using a mobility scooter has died after being hit by a car on a pedestrian crossing in Alice Springs.

The Northern Territory is continuing to grieve the short life of a five-year-old girl today with crowds in Alice Springs to pay tribute by donning pink, her favourite colour.

Tributes are flowing in Alice Springs for a five-year-old Aboriginal girl whose body was found earlier today, as the community mourns her death.

Cases of a deadly, vaccine-preventable strain of diphtheria have now risen to 18, after the Centre for Disease Control first declared an outbreak last month. 

Family members of a missing Alice Springs five-year-old have spoken to the ABC for the first time, pleading for anyone with information that could help find their "energetic" little girl to come forward.

Australians taking part in Anzac Day commemorations share stories of sacrifice and bravery, and what today means to them.

When Alison Reidy, then 38, woke in terrible pain, she had no idea she was having a stroke. Now she's trying to improve stroke awareness in the Northern Territory.

Whistleblowers say understaffing at the Northern Territory's busiest hospital is forcing nurses to take on unsafe patient loads, and some are teaching themselves medical procedures via YouTube.

Workers in road-reliant industries are calling on the federal government to provide urgent funding to repair the NT's road network, which was severely damaged by floods.

The Northern Territory coroner has found an attempted murder-suicide in Darwin was a "tragic outcome" of coercive control.

Rescuers are scrambling to save as many flying fox pups as they can, with hundreds of the native bats dead or dying in Top End streets.

After multiple major weather events, tourism vendors are looking at clean-up costs in the hundreds of thousands, with some businesses lost entirely. The industry is calling for governments to step in and help.

The Northern Territory's health department has declared an outbreak of respiratory diphtheria in the Top End.

BOM is warning major riverine flooding could follow the "moderate to heavy rainfall" dumped across the NT by ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle.

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle has left the Northern Territory after dumping more than 200mm of rain on the Top End overnight, but authorities have warned the emergency is "not over".

After regaining strength in the gulf, Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle is expected to make landfall in the Northern Territory on Saturday evening.

Ahead of Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle's expected impact on the eastern Top End, about 500 people from one community have been evacuated to Darwin, while others prepare to "shelter in place".