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.

As people flock to Uluru in their thousands to make the ascent while they still can, tour operators are finding new ways for people to enjoy the area after the climb is closed for good next weekend.

An Alice Springs social worker who has given a voice to Aboriginal women and a Darwin doctor who oversaw the RAAF Cyclone Tracy evacuations have been honoured.

A pet deer fatally attacks a man and injures his wife during feeding. The couple's son had to beat the animal with a lump of wood to save his mother, the ABC has been told.

An Irish family, who has been living in regional Victoria for almost a decade, faces deportation after their son is diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.

Aged care advocates say policy, regulatory and funding systems have not kept pace with the changing needs and expectations of the growing number of older Australians.

Four children are among eight people rescued from cars trapped in snow as Victoria is hit by unusually heavy May falls.

The brothers shot and injured by police after wielding a knife and tomahawk during a confrontation in Victoria's north-east were of interest to counterterrorisminvestigators.

It is a familiar story, high commodity prices benefit some parts of the supply chain, but not others. That is the case in the sheep and lamb industry, where record prices are a boon for farmers, but a nightmare for processors and butchers.

A former primary school teacher who abused 38 of his students at several country Victorian schools is sentenced to 12 years in jail, but some of his victims say the sentence should be longer.

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

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.

Snowboarder Matt Golding was swept down 'Mary's Slide' after triggering an avalanche.

Heavy snow, freezing temperatures and "treacherous driving conditions" close access to a popular snow resort as Victoria shivers through its third day of an extreme cold snap that's blanketing towns in snow.

The Government believes the projects will create more than 600 jobs and generate enough clean energy to power more than 80,000 homes, while farmers have labelled the decision as "gutless".

Authorities discover more than 120 dead native birds, believed to have been poisoned, on a rural property in northern Victoria.

The parents of a teenage girl who died after falling off a horse say riders are subjected to avoidable risks when there is no way to trace an animal's history.

A $30 million proposal for a sheep abattoir that would employ 150 full-time workers is opposed by a group of residents, who are concerned about potential health impacts and devaluation of their properties.

Operations will cease at Albury's Norske Skog paper mill, with 183 employees to lose their jobs after the company announced the sale of its Ettamogah site to Australian papermaker Visy.

Easy-to-use apps are the key to citizen science take-up rates to fill in the gaps on data collection.

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.

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

A small rural shire in northern Victoria that missed out on a Federal Government drought grant is rejoicing after the decision was reversed.

The sister of missing hiker Niels Becker hopes he will be found with an "epic story" to tell after failing to return from five-day hike in cold conditions in Victoria's alpine region.

A $500 million methanol plant with the capacity to produce 1,000 tonnes a day of the chemical could begin operating by 2024 in the Darwin Harbour.

The NT Police's recent haul included a banned Adler shotgun and a pistol once owned by Vic Hall, a legendary NT Mounted Police officer and World War One veteran who wrote numerous books about his colourful life in the outback.

Embattled regional airline Airnorth is in for a run for its money as competitor airlines line up for the NT Government-subsidised contract.

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.

Scorched earth and burned toys show just how close a family's home came to destruction during rural Darwin's bushfire emergency.

A rare copy of the nearly 40-year-old documentary Dirt Cheap, which details the early resistance against uranium mining in Kakadu National Park, is rediscovered in Darwin.

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.

Black, brown, brindle, or sandy what makes mixed-breed dogs, known as Darwin specials, so popular?

Young people in the Top End are returning 'in droves' after tasting life elsewhere and they think they are onto a good thing, a national survey finds.

Authorities are warning WA residents to prepare emergency kits for up to five days and to avoid "last minute" preparations, despite below-average cyclone predictions for the 201920 season.

Michael Gunner says a nine-hour blackout which left thousands of residents across Central Australia without power during the heat of the day on Sunday is "unacceptable" and calls for a review into the region's power supply.

Resources giant Santos is strengthening its grip on the north Australian gas sector, as it moves to secure billions of dollars worth of exploration and production investments in the Top End.

In the turbid waters of the Wessel Marine Park in the Gulf of Carpentaria, an underwater garden of sponges, corals and creatures is revealed.

An "extremely disturbing" trend of Northern Territory Government workers facing "reprisals" for raising concerns about corruption or improper conduct triggers a call for the region's whistleblower laws to be strengthened.

An Aboriginal corporation in the Kimberley is set to become the first to commercialise the breeding of native freshwater prawns.

People living in the NT are more than twice as likely to suffer from a tobacco-related disease than people living anywhere else in Australia, prompting fresh calls to relax the NT's new vaping laws but not everyone is convinced e-cigarettes are the answer.

The Territory Families Department finalised half the number of child-protection investigations it planned to last financial year, but child welfare advocates say the figure is a result of longer-term reforms.

Each year, psychics, mediums, clairvoyants, those with similar "sensitivities" roll in from all corners to host the event in a string of rural and outback towns across Queensland and the NT. But that could all come to a close.