CLP wins 2024 NT election, returns to power after eight years in opposition
Lia Finocchiaro will be the first female chief minister for the Country Liberal Party, describing the landslide victory as "an absolute honour and a privilege".
Steve Vivian is a journalist and digital producer in the ABC's Darwin bureau in the Northern Territory. He has previously worked as a reporter at the NT News, Gold Coast Bulletin, Tweed Daily News and Mansfield Courier.
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Lia Finocchiaro will be the first female chief minister for the Country Liberal Party, describing the landslide victory as "an absolute honour and a privilege".
Country Liberal Party leader Lia Finocchiaro has claimed victory in the NT election, describing the result s as a "victory for hope and opportunity".
In 2016, the Country Liberal Party was sensationally booted from government in the Northern Territory. Eight years later, it could be returned to government after a long road back from the political wilderness.
The Northern Territory government has announced it has identified issues with the enforcement of fines and penalties, dating back at least a decade.
It was a very different Northern Territory in 2016 when Labor rose to power in a monumental election victory. Later this month, the party's complicated legacy in government will be judged by voters – and the election is tipped to be a nailbiter.
Known as the "The Flash" for his breathtaking pace on the footy field in the 70s and 80s, Michael Graham's induction to the Australian Football Hall of Fame has capped off his journey from the Point Pearce mission to footballing immortality.
A police search will continue into a third day for a missing 12-year-old girl reportedly attacked by a crocodile near the remote Northern Territory community of Palumpa, 360 kilometres south-west of Darwin.
Emergency services say there have been several injuries, including facial burns to a six-month-old and burns to the groin region of a 37-year-old man, during the annual night when people can legally let off fireworks in the Northern Territory.
Mr T Wurramarrba, who led the push for the Anindilyakwa people of the Northern Territory to regain local autonomy, is being celebrated by Indigenous traditional owners as a tireless leader and reformer.
The bomb squad was called in when a 60-kilogram World War II-era bomb was dug up by construction workers during excavation at Stokes Hill Wharf near Darwin City. Then, they blew it up.
NT government-owned utility the Power and Water Corporation has revealed the territory's shortfall in gas supply cost taxpayers $43.4 million in 2023-24, and is estimated to cost another $24.3 million next financial year.
Dustin Martin, the man who was drafted to Richmond at its lowest ebb and hauled the club to three premierships, plays his 300th game on Saturday night. In an astonishing career, where does he sit among the modern greats?
Parks Australia says it will plead guilty to allegations it damaged a sacred site in Kakadu during construction work in 2019 – an incident that set off long-running court action and a bitter dispute between traditional owners and the Commonwealth body.
AFL Northern Territory removed football legend Dennis Dunn's name from one of the most prestigious awards in NT football, over a conviction that's almost a decade old. His supporters are calling for the decision to be reversed.
Kaye Brown had completed one of the most ambitious bark painting projects to recently come from the Tiwi Islands, but after it was loaded on a truck to travel across the country, it never made it to the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Johnathon "World Peace" Bush is the latest in a long line of remote Indigenous artists to have gained global recognition by telling stories to, and finding a value with, international audiences and buyers.
The NT chief minister says the youth curfew in Alice Springs has been a "circuit breaker", leading to a reduction in crime and an increase in the number of families asking for support.
The youth curfew in Alice Springs banning children under 18 from the town centre at night could be extended beyond Wednesday following a meeting of government agencies on Monday afternoon, the Northern Territory police commissioner says.
South Australia Police will send 20 officers to Alice Springs following a request from the NT police commissioner to help continue "high-visibility policing" in the town.
Kids climb onto the roof of the Don Dale youth detention facility in an overnight riot that saw a police officer taken to hospital and a building set alight.
The NT government announces a $200 million commitment to recruit 200 more officers over the next four years, amid redeployments to staff the Alice Springs curfew, scrutiny of police resourcing and an investigation into racism within NT Police.
Scenes of violence and unrest in Alice Springs prompted the NT government to declare a two-week youth curfew in the town on Wednesday. Here's what some community members have to say about the plan.
The Australian Defence Force is continuing to fly into Borroloola to bring food to vulnerable residents after it completed evacuations of 380 people from the town now hit by likely-record flooding.
Three more evacuation flights out of the inundated town of Borroloola are scheduled for Thursday afternoon after more than 100 people were airlifted from the remote community overnight in the wake of heavy rains associated with ex-Tropical Cyclone Megan.
Borroloola is facing an imminent, record-breaking flood, emergency services say, with the Australian Defence Force attempting to airlift hundreds of residents out of the community before nightfall.