Lee Robinson

Former Barkly mayor Jeff McLaughlin has avoided a conviction for drug-driving and cannabis possession after prosecutors withdrew more serious charges against him.

When Harold Lasseter died alone in the desert in 1931, he took secrets of a supposed vast gold-bearing reef with him. His tale inspired generations of expeditions, which continue to this day.

The family of a baby injured in a shocking home invasion in Alice Springs thanks the community for its support after a fundraiser drew more than $52,000 in donations.

The organisers of the Finke Desert Race have settled a lawsuit over a crash that left a spectator dead and another seriously injured.

NT Police Assistant Commissioner Michael White said this was a "very significant event" that has caused "significant shock to the community".

More than a year after former Barkly mayor Jeff McLaughlin was filmed restraining a child in a so-called citizen's arrest, police have closed their investigation into the incident "with no criminal prosecution to occur".

Police have arrested a senior employee with Australia's largest Indigenous legal aid service after she was allegedly caught harbouring a convicted killer in an Alice Springs hotel room.

Power and Water Corporation is supplying two remote Aboriginal communities with bottled water after new research has linked higher fluoride levels in drinking water to lower IQs in children.

In the remote Australian outback, where ancient Aboriginal songlines traverse the unforgiving landscape, missionaries from the United States are preaching a religious movement. 

Leaders in Kintore are calling for additional support for their remote Indigenous community amid a spike in young people petrol sniffing and the temporary closure of its only school.