Oliver Chaseling

After 30 days at sea, Digby Campbell was down to his last can of beer and two Red Bulls when three strangers saved the 75-year-old sailor adrift off Darwin Harbour.

In the jurisdiction with Australia's highest suicide rate, a mother's desperate search for help before her son's death has sparked calls for change. 

A new multi-purpose ward at the Northern Territory's largest hospital has received its first patients this week, with hopes the $24 million investment will help ease capacity pressures in Darwin's health sector.  

Two young tourists say they've never been more scared in their lives after 21-year-old Victorian woman Emma Hipwell was charged by a wild buffalo while holidaying in the Northern Territory.

The jury in a Darwin murder trial hears the alleged victim waited days for treatment for a "catastrophic" brain injury that ultimately caused her death.

Former army commando turned Labor MP, Luke Gosling, has denied involvement in an alleged incident with King Charles's representative in the NT.

The ABC can reveal a man charged with sexually abusing a "very young child" at a greater Darwin school holiday program had also recently worked at a Top End school.

A national inquiry into racism against First Nations people, launched after an alleged terror attack in Perth, has heard allegations of systemic racism in the Northern Territory, as the territory government comes under fire for snubbing the probe.

A government-funded housing provider in the Northern Territory mining town of Nhulunbuy has been criticised for "not doing enough" to support small business owners.

In Australia's tropical north, a mining town is preparing for the departure of its biggest employer, and locals are accusing the mining giant of squeezing out small businesses on its way out.