Natasha Macfarlane

When Mr Marika felt sudden chest pain in a remote Northern Territory community, emergency services were out of reach. His community wants answers.

The Indigenous boy, who authorities have confirmed had done nothing wrong, was dragged kicking and screaming from a house and placed into the cage of the vehicle by police officers.

Natasha Fyles has taken aim at “attention-seeking senators” for criticising the $1.5 billion taxpayer-funded Middle Arm industrial hub, in a speech to the territory’s business community.

The officer — who cannot be named for legal reasons — was arrested on Friday and charged with sexual intercourse without consent, choking, strangling or suffocating in a domestic relationship and aggravated assault.

Aussie rock legends Jet and Top End favourites King Stingray will hit the stage for Darwin’s Bass in the Grass festival next year, which is set to include a new Boiler Room-inspired stage.

Across the Darwin CBD, 58,000 square metres of commercial office space lies vacant. The NT Property Council expects these grim figures to worsen in the new year, calling for more to be done to activate empty spaces in the city.

The boy, who was visiting the Northern Territory from interstate with his family, died after being hit and pinned to a wall by a large ute Wayne Peter Hunt was driving.

A man is yet to be identified after being killed by a road train on the Stuart Highway near the town of Mataranka.

Jamie Leonard weighed 35 kilograms and felt like there was cement in her chest when she was misdiagnosed with an eating disorder. In reality, she had a rare swallowing disorder and says she wasn't being listened to by doctors.

In light of a potentially escalating war between Lebanon and Israel, Australians in Lebanon are asked to leave and others are told to avoid travel. But many won't be deterred.