COMPETITORS took to the sea in the iconic Darwin open water swim setting several record times at Casuarina Beach on Sunday morning.

NORTHERN Sharks extended their NRL NT A-Grade unbeaten run, while youth shone in another dominant win for the Darwin Sistaz.

IT’S a typically hot May morning in Kalkaringi (Kalkarindji) and taking refuge inside the airconditioned comfort of the new Child and Family Centre, members of the Local Advisory Board are deep in discussion.

A TOP Territory bull rider turned “vigilante debt collect(or)” has walked free on a suspended sentence after attacking his former friend as he slept and demanding he hand over a horse truck and bobcat.

Police appear to drive the other way after a person in a ute runs a man down.

A SHOCKING video shared on social media shows the moment a man is mowed down by a 4WD in the driveway of a Darwin hotel.

BUSHRANGER and their spies bring NT News readers the latest gossip from the Northern Territory.

LEGENDARY Alice Springs local Sydney Kinsman has died, aged 100.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON: There was no shortage in motorsports merchandise on the spectator hills inside the Hidden Valley arena on Saturday.

A POPULAR Darwin watering hole has been blasted by the NT Liquor Commission as having “the appearance of a rowdy pub beer garden rather than alfresco cafe” and found in breach of its licence for having a dance floor.

OVER $30,000 has been raised on GoFundMe for a nine-year-old girl who is currently in ICU after being struck by a car during Finke.

TERRITORIANS are set to soak in the beauty of a Darwin Harbour sunset over a slice of delicious pizza after approval was given for a new joint at Stokes Hill Wharf.

WARLPIRI Elders from the Central Australian township of Yuendumu have called for police in remote communities to be stripped of their guns.

The family of Palmerston Cricket Club member Shane Winter, who died less than two months after being diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer, have invited the community to celebrate his life.

SHE walks across Country with the knowledge of Yanyuwa and Garrwa; a woman who finds solace in Li-anthawirryarra (spiritual origin from sea Country).

DEFENDING Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen has laid down a statement of intent setting the benchmark time in practice.

UPDATE JUN 17: FIREFIGHTERS doing their bit during the Top End fire season have set up a blaze along the Stuart Highway.

TERRITORY classrooms are facing a second-semester teacher shortage because of lower pay rates compared to their southern counterparts.

IT’S the peak of the Territory tourism season but eager holiday-makers — and returning locals alike — are being left fuming, with many having to wait “several hours” for taxis when they land at Darwin and Alice Springs airports.

POLICE bureaucrats refuse to answer questions over officer welfare after a young Alice Springs cop took his own life.

THE CLP has shied away from endorsing Jamie Chalker to continue as Police Commissioner, ahead of a looming Estimates grilling next week.

TOP Gun Flight Lieutenant Michael Marriner is flying high in the Top End in this years Exercise Diamond Storm.

FLU case numbers have jumped by 806 in the last seven days, with 3806 cases recorded in the Territory so far this year.

RENTS of up to $1000-a-week could be commonplace in Darwin’s CBD within the next three years, as expected economic growth combines with investor interest and an influx of tertiary students in the city.

Hogs at Darwin's annual Cruise for the Cause.

MORE than 200 dedicated rev heads took to their hot rods and bikes to help raise more than $50,000 for prostate cancer prevention in Darwin’s annual Cruise for the Cause on Sunday.

NT POLICE have seized a toy gun loaded with foam pellets and a chemical “consistent with water” during a daring daylight raid on the home of an amateur chemist in Alice Springs.

TWO motorbike riders have been rushed to Alice Springs hospital with serious injuries following a head-on crash near Finke.

REIGNING King of the Desert Toby Price has made the perfect start to his title defence after recording the fastest time on an epic Prologue Day at Finke.

UPDATE SAT: THE Territory’s most infamous youth detention centre has been described as a “pressure cooker” of trauma after multiple children self harmed inside Don Dale over a single weekend.

The countdown to Finke is well and truely underway. See all the pictures of the action here.

The sun sunk behind the West MacDonnell Ranges as Finke Desert Race 2022 kicked off in front of them.

BLAIN MLA Mark Turner has written to the Attorney-General urging a mould inspection of every home and worksite owned by the Northern Territory government, amid concerns of a “timebomb” of medical complications similar to those suffered by an eight-year-old girl in 2019.

All the faces from a thrilling weekend of Finke action. See if you got captured here.

AUSSIE legends combine with NT hometown stars to take to stages across the NT for what promises to be an epic Territory Day celebration.

THE dry season freeze is finally upon us with regions across the Northern Territory hit with their coldest temperatures of the year.

LEGENDARY cattle titan, larrikin and proud Territorian James Alexander Hayes has passed away aged 76 on June 3.

TERRITORIANS are suffering under some of the most significant increases to cost of living in the country, according to a new report.

TINA Macfarlane has blasted “commentators” blaming her for the CLP’s thumping in the federal seat of Solomon and said “restrictive” rules over what she could and couldn’t say prevented her campaigning at her very best.

THERE were 100 children locked up in the Territory last month, according to new data.

THE pandemic-ravaged cruise industry has been buoyed by the return of expeditions in and out of the Top End, with hopes it could draw hundreds of tourists back into the Northern Territory.

Thousands  descended on the Fannie Bay Racecourse – dressed in their finest – for a history-making Adelaide River Cup race day. Were you snapped in OUR PICTURE GALLERY?

POLICE bureaucracy allegedly ignored pleas to combat rampant mould in an officer’s home on the Tiwi Islands, in the years leading up to a terrifying medical episode which left an eight-year-old girl in ICU with “decaying flesh” in her throat.

You voted for your favourite Indian restaurant in Northern Territory and the results are in. They are:

THE architect of the nation’s most draconian Covid-19 regulations has taken a paid six-month sabbatical to study bush medicine and other wellness-related measures.

There has been one company liquidation notice in the Litchfield Local Government Area today and 12 for the past year.

THOUROUGHBRED Racing NT chairman Syd Stirling has doubled down on calls for the NT government to reverse their decision to recall the $12m from the Darwin Turf Club.

PLANNING for the development of two new suburbs around Palmerston will be fast-tracked in the latest push to bolster the Territory’s population and economic growth.

A MOTHER and son allegedly conspired to bury a woman’s body in a shallow grave on a rural road to cover up a brutal hit and run.

There has been one company liquidation notice in the Litchfield Local Government Area today and 12 for the past year.