High water prices in the Murray-Darling Basin are blamed on foreign investors and corporate speculators. The simple truth is they are caused mostly by lack of rain.

A Murray-Darling Basin inspector-general will focus of water efficiency, compliance and theft under a proposal by Water Minister David Littleproud.

NSW and Victoria commit to an independent review of Murray-Darling water modelling, and Inspector-General Mick Keelty flags the possibility of unearthing more corruption.

As the northern hemisphere sweats through deadly heatwaves, experts warn Australia is unprepared to deal with soaring temperatures.

Farmers Stephen Black and Melissa Portingale were so desperate for water they put a rare ooshie up for sale. That's when the trouble started.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will investigate who actually owns Australia's water, in particular the Murray-Darling Basin's $2 billion water market.

Albury supermarket owner Bob Mathews says the scheme has cost his business.

New analysis of water prices in the southern Murray-Darling Basin finds water prices sitting at levels only previously seen during the Millennium Drought.

Mick Keelty says a string of scandals involving water thefts and corruption have fostered public mistrust in the plan to save the Murray-Darling Basin.

A significant move by the Anglican Church to bless the marriage of two gay priests at a ceremony this week has been postponed due to a legal challenge.

Police believe human remains found in the Murray River at Albury belong to 21-year-old university student Bigul Pandit, who drowned while swimming with friends in January.

Two men have been ordered to stand trial over the murder of Wangaratta man Nathan Day, with a Victorian court hearing evidence from dozens of witnesses during a week-long committal hearing.

As farming groups lobby the Federal Government to take action on soaring water prices, water brokers warn some irrigators will be worse off if the Government intervenes in the trade.

Australia's largest cotton farm Cubbie Station has opened its gates to local government councillors from across the Murray-Darling Basin.

A Gippsland couple missing in Victoria's High Country since Monday has been found safe and well.

The Returned and Services League in NSW says it has been falling behind in providing services and enticing new members and is now renewing its refocus on caring for veterans and their families.

The group representing Victoria's councils calls for organisations like independent schools, pokies clubs and churches to pay their fair share of rates because "mum and dad homeowners" are unfairly cross-subsidising private and commercial enterprises.

Recognised as "the last frontier" and the land of opportunity, Darwin has always occupied a special fascination for the rest of Australia. So many of you asked what attracts people to the Top End, and what the residents are like. Here's a snapshot.

A judge finds "extraordinary" flaws in the environment watchdog's decision not to require a formal impact assessment on a bid to clear 20,000 hectares of native vegetation on a cattle station south of Darwin, but steers clear of arguments over climate change.

Documents tendered in the Northern Territory Supreme Court allege the five-storey complex in Darwin which is now advertised as "the epitome of waterfront living" almost collapsed before its completion in 2017.

A report says the process for a $12 million grandstand at Darwin Turf Club was "independent and fair", but the Chief Minister wants rules tightened.

The man accused of killing four people and injuring another in a shooting spree across Darwin's inner-city suburbs in June will plead not guilty to 13 charges, including four counts of murder, his lawyer says.

A prodigiously talented, goal-scoring genius of the Long-Rioli family is just one of the dozens of men and women left confused and shocked by the AFL's decision to close the Northern Territory's only top-level side.

Five years ago up to 10,000 magpie geese helped themselves to fruit on a mango farm. Now the birds deliberately fly around the property.

More than 5,000 children's picture books have been translated into Aboriginal languages and given to families throughout the Northern Territory.

Being bashed in the head with an EFTPOS machine and left with memory loss was just one of dozens of recent crimes inflicted on a Palmerston supermarket worker.

An Australian fast food giant launches a '0 per cent beef' burger that aims to imitate the real thing and appeal to meat lovers' tastes.

Territorians will not benefit from a government dominated by independent candidates, insists CLP hopeful Tracey Hayes as she starts her challenge against Chief Minister Michael Gunner.

One of the nation's most powerful trade unions lashes the Northern Territory Government for its "unacceptable" lack of a policy platform in the lead up to the 2020 Territory election.

The wrongful arrest of a man who spent 103 days in custody over an alleged rape, while awaiting DNA results, prompts a review into the NT Police forensics branch.

The Australian head of the US Marines in the NT says the current figure of 2,500 troops rotating through the region could be "exceeded in certain years", but a continued focus on the figures is "missing the point".

Nearly 34 years to the day since Uluru was handed back to the Anangu traditional owners, their wishes will now be enforced by law, and anyone caught ascending the culturally significant site will face thousands in fines.

Emma Sharp had already used up 14 weeks of leave before her newborn son was healthy enough to come home. Now, she's calling on the Commonwealth to allow mums with premature babies to delay when their leave starts.

Four-time Hawthorn premiership player Cyril Rioli kicks the last goal of the game to steer the Tiwi Bombers to a one-point victory in his return to the football field after retiring from the AFL.

Telstra admits to selling "phones to customers who ultimately could not afford them", with an executive addressing the Aboriginal Economic Development Forum at the Darwin Convention Centre.

It would end in the High Court, but it began as an agreement between two friends. Robert donated his sperm to conceive a child with his friend Susan, but when she and her wife decided to move overseas, everything changed.

Two men walked into a Canberra McDonald's restaurant and ordered a meal while still covered in the blood of a man they had just attacked, according to court documents.

A Canberra man who allegedly killed his ex-partner's dog with a shovel an act captured by security cameras in the woman's backyard, according to police is refused bail.

The Tigers still have finals aspirations after a convincing win over the Dragons, after the Canberra Raiders knocked off the Cronulla Sharks in golden point in Paul Gallen's farewell home match.

One person is dead and another injured after a crash between a truck and a car, which will see the Monaro Highway closed for the rest of the day.

There are warnings for consumers and farmers that Australia's biggest food bowl, the Murray-Darling Basin, is bracing for a grim end to the year.

The mother of Bradyn Dillon, who was brutally murdered by his father Graham Dillon in 2016, receives an apology from ACT Government lawyers for failing to protect the child.

Child killer Graham Dillon's deception of authorities is examined at an inquest into his nine-year-old son's death, with the case worker assigned to help the family saying he believed Dillon was a model client.

Police are investigating dashcam footage, taken on one of Canberra's busiest roads, that shows a car travelling in the wrong direction of the dual-carriageway Tuggeranong Parkway.