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The Bootu Creek mine is located north of Tennant Creek. Picture: OM Holdings.

Miner buried by rock at Bootu Creek

Chris McLennan

ROAD SIDE ASPARAGUS: Fresh asparagus sales help Leo Howard's dreams of a sport trip to Canberra with the NT Touch team become a reality.

Sport trip dreams made possible with the sale of asparagus

Roxanne Fitzgerald

Money will be siphoned from the CBD upgrade to help pay for repairs to the long-delayed hot springs project.

Budget shock - cash from CBD upgrade to help fix hot springs

Chris McLennan

The Bootu Creek manganese mine has been ordered to close.

Mine has been ordered to close

Chris McLennan

Constable Timothy Gouverneur had been on the job for less than six months when he was called on to risk his own life in a fire rescue.

Handpicked for Saturday: Five good reads you may have missed

Roxanne Fitzgerald

OUTBREAK: Siam weed was first found in Queensland around 1994. Toxic to cattle and known to take over crops, it has long been regarded as one of Australia's worst. Picture: Supplied.

Australia's worst weed found in the Top End

Roxanne Fitzgerald

BIG TRIP: Imagine having to scroll backward from this great age to find your birth date online, RSI for sure.

Not the festival's correct demographic

By CHRIS McLENNAN

The Bootu Creek mine is located north of Tennant Creek. Picture: OM Holdings.

Miner buried by rock at Bootu Creek

Chris McLennan

ROAD SIDE ASPARAGUS: Fresh asparagus sales help Leo Howard's dreams of a sport trip to Canberra with the NT Touch team become a reality.

Sport trip dreams made possible with the sale of asparagus

Roxanne Fitzgerald

Life, near-death and reality recognised. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Life, near-death and reality recognised

ROAD SIDE ASPARAGUS: Fresh asparagus sales help Leo Howard's dreams of a sport trip to Canberra with the NT Touch team become a reality.

Sport trip dreams made possible with the sale of asparagus

Roxanne Fitzgerald

SPEEDY RISE: Women's team also took to local sporting fields last year in the local Big Rivers football competition after an upsurge in popularity. Picture: Roxanne Fitzgerald.

Katherine wants to host a team in NT women's AFL competition

Chris McLennan

KATHERINE CUP WIN: As the pack neared the finish line, Downhearted was so far ahead, a win was almost obvious.

Downhearted claims victory at Katherine Cup 2019

Roxanne Fitzgerald

ROAD SIDE ASPARAGUS: Fresh asparagus sales help Leo Howard's dreams of a sport trip to Canberra with the NT Touch team become a reality.

Sport trip dreams made possible with the sale of asparagus

Minor premiers Rebels have gone on to win the grand final. Pictures: supplied.

Rebels team wins 2019 softball grand final

Chris McLennan

The Katherine Cup race meeting is billed as the social event of the year.

Dry season warm for race day, but it could be windy

Chris McLennan

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Briony Festing works at Equalitea, an equal opportunity cafe in Katherine, a is the creative genius behind most of the cafe's scones, muffins and also sausage rolls. Picture: Supplied.

Awards night to celebrate people with disabilities

Roxanne Fitzgerald

ROAD SIDE ASPARAGUS: Fresh asparagus sales help Leo Howard's dreams of a sport trip to Canberra with the NT Touch team become a reality.

Sport trip dreams made possible with the sale of asparagus

Roxanne Fitzgerald

ARTIST: Amy Pitcher, originally from Lajamanu, is part of the Access Arts program, run by Katherine Regional Arts, and now has her artwork hanging on the walls of the Katherine Cinema.

New exhibition showcases Access Art program's artists

Roxanne Fitzgerald

Briony Festing works at Equalitea, an equal opportunity cafe in Katherine, a is the creative genius behind most of the cafe's scones, muffins and also sausage rolls. Picture: Supplied.

Awards night to celebrate people with disabilities

After a poor wet season, the Katherine River is running at one of its lowest levels in living memory, officially at 0.21 metres. Picture: Katherine Town Council.

WHAT'S ON
Water use rises as build up approaches

Chris McLennan

This will be the first time the Federal Court has sat in Pine Creek.

Native title ceremony in Pine Creek tomorrow

Chris McLennan

We may not have been back to the moon since 1969 but the advanced technology of today would certainly have to make for a smoother landing.

Could your mobile phone take you to the moon and back?

Emma Brown

SOMETHING TO TRUMPET: Everyone likes to look good in Cochin, India.

Cruise Singapore to Dubai next year

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OUTLOOK: The ACM survey aims to find out more about what makes regional and rural communities tick.

Help us build a better understanding of regional Australia

We may not have been back to the moon since 1969 but the advanced technology of today would certainly have to make for a smoother landing.

Could your mobile phone take you to the moon and back?

Popular choice: Owning a mobile phone is a necessity for just about everyone these days, but did you know that there are 2.5 billion of us that use Android making it the world's most popular operating system.

How to find the perfect phone for you

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Katherine and District Show 2019

Katherine and District Show 2019

The new Bushfires NT Headquarters will be built on this block on the corner of Townend Road and the Stuart Highway at Acacia Hills. The block is a long-narrow one that has a Stuart Highway frontage. Picture: supplied.

Works starts on new bushfires HQ

Chris McLennan

The building has changed dramatically over the years as owners have come and gone, adding extensions, expanding and fixing. Picture: The Historical Society of Katherine Inc.

EXCLUSIVE
Store which made history, sadly may become part of it

Roxanne Fitzgerald

Veto power on land permits only introduces more red tape, according to the NT cattle industry.

Govt called to head off clashes on land permits

Chris McLennan

Its bright yellow flower petals have a slightly spicy taste and are good to eat when they are newly open and the tap root of young plants has a taste and texture like a radish.

Yellow kapok has many uses

Clare Pearce

All the action from the Katherine races on Saturday. Picture: Zoe Schremmer.

We want your pictures - c'mon let others share your snaps

Chris McLennan

After a poor wet season, the Katherine River is running at one of its lowest levels in living memory, officially at 0.21 metres. Picture: Katherine Town Council.

WHAT'S ON
Water use rises as build up approaches

Chris McLennan

Its bright yellow flower petals have a slightly spicy taste and are good to eat when they are newly open and the tap root of young plants has a taste and texture like a radish.

Yellow kapok has many uses

Outback communities receive a sub-standard health service, it was claimed today.

Sick of sub-standard health services in the bush

Chris McLennan

LOOK CLOSELY: If you look at the Cucumber Moth in the photo, you will see that it appears to have a pom-pom attached to its rear end.

Hungry moth with a pom-pom decorated butt

Clare Pearce

Life, near-death and reality recognised. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Life, near-death and reality recognised

In full flight: Kolding steps out in his second offical barrier trial at Rosehill on Tuesday. Picture: waikatostud.com

Star filly breaks the clock at Randwick

John Paul Young, with percussionist Paul Kirtley and keyboardist/songwriter Warren "Pig" Morgan, performing at Goodooga. Picture: Scott Bevan

Pop icon's long journey to honour Aboriginal diggers

The Sunday Roast | Back to 1990

The Sunday Roast | Back to 1990

Get out the ferris wheel - it's showtime in Adelaide (nearly). Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
When rams plus jams equal showtime

Elizabeth Anderson

NEW TERRITORY: From left, City Calm Down's Jack Bourke, Lee Armstrong, Jeremy Sonnenberg and Sam Mullaly wanted to brighten and simplify their sound on Television, following the claustrophobic gloom of their acclaimed record Echoes In Blue.

City Calm Down change the channel on new album Television

Josh Leeson

MAD FOR IT: Oasis legend Liam Gallagher will headline the Fairgrounds Festival in Berry in December.

Oasis star Liam Gallagher set to hit Fairgrounds running

Josh Leeson

GOT IT: While picking up the keys was exciting, I soon realised that this was the easy part. Photo: SUPPLIED

I renovated a house for Airbnb: here's what I learnt

Alex Crowe

Universities help international students bypass admissions test - for a fee

OPINION
Universities help international students bypass admissions test - for a fee

Salvatore Babones

Life, near-death and reality recognised. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Life, near-death and reality recognised

Picture: Adam McLean.

OPINION
Spare me the Jack De Belin's pity party

Zoe Cartwright

Kookaburras to Mr Whippy. What does Australia sound like to you?

Kookaburras to Mr Whippy. What does Australia sound like to you?

'GREAT HONOUR': Canberra healthcare worker and grandmother Aunty Thelma Weston has been named 2019 NAIDOC Female Elder of the Year.

Aunty Thelma's warm welcome

Geraldine Cardozo

Older Australians are among at-risk groups for sepsis.

It kills 5000 Aussies a year, but do you know the sepsis warning signs?

Eileen Wood

Serial killer Ivan Milat has sent a letter claiming he is innocent of murdering seven backpackers.

Ivan Milat claims innocence in new letter

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Marise Payne has defended the decision to send troops to another US-led military mission

Minister defends Strait of Hormuz mission

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A Melbourne rally has protested the imminent deportation of a Tamil asylum seeker family.

Vic protesters call to save Tamil family

A major operation is under way to find a worker after a wall collapse at the NT's Bootu Creek mine.

NT mine worker buried under collapsed wall

Militant union officials have refused to stand for Labor leader Anthony Albanese in WA.

Unions hostile to Albo at WA Labor event

Scott Morrison is a special invited guest of French President Emmanuel Macron at the G7 meeting.

PM seeks G7 action against terror websites

Katina Curtis, AAP Senior Political Writer

A 29-year-old woman has drowned at Edith Falls in the Northern Territory.

Woman drowns at NT's Edith Falls

Gabriel Polychronis

The Victorian Police Association wants the state government to reassess their working agreement.

Vic Police call for fairer work conditions

Zena Chamas

RIP: Ock Remfrey dies at the age of 74 after a battle with cancer. Photo supplied.

Vale Oscar "Ock" Thomas Remfrey

Samantha Walton

CRISIS IN THE BUSH: NLC chairman Samuel Bush-Blanasi says urgent action is needed to address the water crisis.

Water crisis has remote NT residents worried about their future

Roxanne Fitzgerald

Townsville will host a rare sitting of State Parliament next month.

State politicians march North

Jessica Johnston

A knowledgeable tour guide can take you through one of the nine show caves available, explaining the formations and highlights of each cave.

Head underground for your next holiday

Andrew Lotherington

Cost, convenience and space are all things to consider when deciding where to stay on your next trip. Picture: Supplied

Hotel vs apartment: the pros and cons

Michael Turtle

A great experience: fishing at Berkeley River Lodge.

Great ideas for your next getaway

John Rozentals

A helping paw: Dogs help humans in many ways, even if it just companionship.

Paws and consider how much dogs help us on International Dog Day, August 26

Purpose: National Skills Week (August 26 to September 1) celebrates the achievements of practical learners, focusing on the benefits of skills and training. Photos: Shutterstock.

Demand for skilled labour

Sam Hollier

Valley's deep copper finish is the perfect complement to nature's earth tones. Retail $179.

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