James Elton

As Bron stood atop a ridge, trying to find her way back to the Larapinta Trail, all she could think about was the Victorian hiker whose body was retrieved from the same track only a month before.

Ben Olschewsky was heading to the bush for a four-week building maintenance contract. Fourteen years later, he can't imagine living anywhere else.

These players don't have fancy uniforms or special equipment and often train barefoot, but they share one thing in common: an obsession with AFL.

It will be just the third year in more than six decades the Henley-on-Todd Regatta, which draws tourists from around the country, has not gone ahead.

A leading water economist and traditional owners warn the iconic Mataranka thermal springs may be under threat if a controversial water plan — now closed for consultation — proceeds as drafted.

Yothu Yindi leader Witiyana Marika says he will "keep on dancing" for a treaty as thousands gather at weekend to celebrate Indigenous culture at Barunga Festival.  

It took Michelangelo four years to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel — the same length of time for Brendan Penzer to collect enough cans to create his own masterpiece.

Traditional owners and custodians have welcomed a High Court decision finding Parks Australia can be held criminally liable for allegedly violating a sacred site in Kakadu, saying it will set a precedent for future cases.

A South Australian buyer who phoned in to the auction was the winning bidder, and is understood to want to use Paddy Moriarty's former home as an NT base for winter escapes.

The tiny town of Larrimah, home to a pink pub and its hungry crocodile, has attracted international attention since Paddy Moriarty's disappearance in 2017. One resident hopes the population will "explode" in coming years.

The vibrancy of the Top End wet season is captured in a collection of paintings by a pair of sisters from a remote community near the southern edge of Arnhem Land. 

Some residents in the regional NT town of Katherine are calling for more attention and resources to tackle crime in their community, as the national spotlight is fixed on Alice Springs amid its two-week youth curfew.

Residents of a hamlet only five minutes from one of Australia's most strategically important air bases find themselves on a collision course with a powerful construction firm.

Daguragu was the first land handed back to Indigenous people by the Commonwealth, but the local economy has stalled. Here's why, and what's being done about it.

Free, industrial washing machines could be the key to eradicating the surging scourge of scabies in remote communities, where the contagious mite has long contributed to the Indigenous life expectancy gap. 

Gurindji traditional owners want schoolkids and tourists to be able to walk the old fence line Vincent Lingiari and his people followed in the 60s. But they say the heritage area's condition is "really sad". 

Memories of a "frontier" town risk fading from the page in the damp wreckage of Timber Creek's Police Museum.

Residents in Timber Creek and Bulla say "the food wasn't coming" during their recent three-week isolation. Things got so bad, neighbours chartered their own helicopter for a food run, and a cattle station donated a freshly killed carcass.

Four people have been killed in a single vehicle crash on the remote Roper Highway, with a pedestrian also struck and killed in a separate incident in Darwin's rural area.

A Katherine resident is concerned about the quality of information collected by government investigators after it took four days for them to get to the site of a Northern Territory fish kill.

Two ex-principals are among a group of education department fill-ins taking on an eleventh-hour deployment to a Northern Territory primary school.

Inside a community's attempts to steer its young people away from criminal choices.

The K-Town Express Christmas train was an impressive sight as it rumbled down the streets of the Northern Territory town as it took visitors and locals on tours to see Christmas light displays.

Chloe Familton is flying solo around Australia to change perceptions of young women in aviation. 

The NT government is trying to convince the Commonwealth to split funding on a new round of remote public housing, this time taking in communities on traditional Aboriginal homelands.