An urgent parole audit ordered by the NT's Chief Minister in the wake of a shooting spree in Darwin earlier this month finds a number of parolees and offenders are not being adequately monitored.

Discoveries of rare animals are sparking mini tourism booms in remote Australia, but they're also causing some headaches for Aboriginal rangers and their conservation efforts.

The smoke has cleared and the post-cracker night clean-up is underway, but how much damage was done?

A Victorian family stranded in the outback arrives in Darwin thanks to a good Samaritan who embarked on a 22-hour round-trip rescue mission.

More payday lending practice stories are coming out of the woodwork as ASIC says it is "building a casebook" for a possible ban.

The head of the Australian Law Society says comments by Alice Springs Judge Greg Borchers were "racist because they are disparaging, discriminatory and offensive, insulting and humiliating to Indigenous Australians based solely on their race".

Date palms in the central desert are a legacy of Afghan cameleers bringing a little bit of home with them. Today, Australian farmers are keen to grow the local date industry to feed the Middle East and the health food sector, while staving off cheap imports.

The records of children and teachers have been left vulnerable to cyber security attacks due to an oversight from the Northern Territory Government, a report from the auditor general's Office has revealed.

Christopher Malyschko was serving a life sentence for arranging the murder of his mother's partner in Katherine in 2011. On Tuesday morning he was found dead in his cell in Darwin's prison.

The Northern Territory Government is trying something new to entice remote school students back to class at the start of Term 3 just in time for the head-count that determines how much school funding comes from Canberra.

African performer Nyapal Lul is making music again in her new desert home of Alice Springs after fleeing war-torn South Sudan in 2013, leaving five children behind.

When Hannah Mifflin's 4WD broke down during an eight-month family road trip around Australia, she never expected they would find themselves accidentally moving to the Red Centre.

A veteran helicopter pilot recalls the rescues from Uluru he took part in and says he is surprised the climb has not been closed sooner.

The climb closure at Uluru could motivate other traditional owner groups around the country to limit access to their cultural and sacred sites.

Strong winds have delayed the final day of climbing Uluru, with hundreds of people waiting to climb the monolith.

The Agriculture Department is standing by a controversial water buyback deal worth $80 million, which Labor leader Bill Shorten says is a "scandal" worthy of inquiry.

Labor is intent on pushing the so-called "watergate scandal". What exactly it is alleging is about as clear as the water flowing through the Menindee Lakes, writes Kath Sullivan.

Volunteer detection dogs have been trained to find the endangered alpine stonefly at Falls Creek, an insect measuring just 50 millimetres in length.

Regional seats proved the toughest battleground for the Coalition at the NSW state election, and with just days to go until the federal poll the pressure remains.

Concerns are raised about Charles Sturt University's spending priorities and credibility after a number of conditions were attached to the facility's registration.

Regional communities have been left reeling, following WIN News' announcement it would be axing four commercial television newsrooms in New South Wales and Queensland.

A group of Barwon-Darling farmers have offered to sell their water entitlements at a value which would encourage new owners "not to grow cotton".

A random survey of people living in the Murray-Darling Basin shows support for reallocating water from irrigators to Indigenous communities.

Taxpayer investments and the water market are making irrigation more efficient and reducing Murray-Darling's base flow. Here's what needs to happen next, write Q J Wang and Avril Horne.

As Australia's competition watchdog prepares to study the Murray-Darling Basin's $2 billion water trade, a trip up the river finds irrigators are worried about the market's "unintended" consequences.

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.

Convicted murderer Michael Cardamone is appealing against the precedent-setting judgement that made him the first person in Victoria to be sentenced to life in prison with no parole after pleading guilty to a single murder.

The Sloane's froglet used to live and breed across vast areas of Victoria and New South Wales, but now it survives in just a few wetland pockets, which are being replanted to help it thrive.

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.

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.

The court heard the 67-year-old Victorian man, who carried out a series of "chilling and vile" sexual attacks on his granddaughter, also posed online as a female, teenage victim of child abuse.

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