Fia Walsh

The timeline for a proposed industrial hub at Middle Arm has blown out by years, with its draft business case knocked back by Infrastructure Australia.

Truancy officers have started patrols in the Northern Territory, with powers to issue $370 fines to parents whose kids miss school.

A Darwin woman who intervened to stop a puppy being kicked, only to be slapped in the face with what she believed to be human faeces, has been left waiting months without any police follow up to the disgusting attack.

The Northern Territory’s peak legal groups have told the Attorney-General she must take urgent action to increase legal aid funding, warning of “uncertainty and chaos” if threatened service cuts occur.

Vivid textiles, bold paintings and stunning accessories have won Ikuntji Art Centre the Northern Territory’s exporter of the year.

The government has extended free bus travel to mid next year, prompting calls for cash to be removed permanently from the network to help improve driver safety.

Northern Territory Legal Aid will reportedly cut crucial services due to underfunding, in a move that could see criminals walk free, leave others unrepresented in court, and push a system at breaking point “over the edge”.

A Northern Territory environment group has launched another legal challenge against fracking in the Beetaloo Basin, a week after a similar attempt was thrown out by the Supreme Court.

A group of elders and artists from remote Northern Territory have won one of Australia’s richest literary prizes for a kid’s book exploring the life of termites through storytelling of the Gurindji People.

Six new agencies have formed and several department heads shuffled on in a major restructure to the Northern Territory public service.