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Amanda Page and her dog Minty will set off on Monday.

Katherine woman to walk around Australia with her dog for charity

Tom Danks

Aboriginal Affairs Minister Selena Uibo, NLC chair Samuel Bush-Blanasi, Chief Minister Michael Gunner and NLC CEO Marion Marion Scrymgour. Picture: supplied.

Deal struck to allow fishos to keep accessing coastal waters

Chris McLennan

There are 5749 people registered to vote in the Katherine electorate and 5431 in Arnhem which now includes the Tindal RAAF Base.

Clinton Booth grabs top spot on Katherine ballot

Chris McLennan

COMMUNITY DRIVEN: "The role of member for Katherine must be community first, and it must be family focused," the Katherine Labor candidate says.

Community first, says Labor's candidate for Katherine, Kate Ganley

Tom Danks

CAUTION NEEDED: The red-flowered kurrajong is magnificent, however, its seeds are covered in dangerous hairs that require extreme caution.

Pretty but dangerous - use caution around Kurrajong

Clare Pearce

Territory Alliance leader Terry Mills and candidate for Katherine Melanie Usher outside Katherine High School yesterday.

Territory Alliance commits to expanded Katherine High developments

Tom Danks

NT fishos will still be able to drop a line into coastal waters after deal is struck

Chris McLennan

Amanda Page and her dog Minty will set off on Monday.

Katherine woman to walk around Australia with her dog for charity

Tom Danks

Aboriginal Affairs Minister Selena Uibo, NLC chair Samuel Bush-Blanasi, Chief Minister Michael Gunner and NLC CEO Marion Marion Scrymgour. Picture: supplied.

Deal struck to allow fishos to keep accessing coastal waters

Chris McLennan

Australia coronavirus live updates: New restrictions kick in

NATIONALAustralia coronavirus live updates: New restrictions kick in

Is this your couch every night of the week now footy's all over the TV? No? Just mine, then.

Do star players need umpire protection?

Nick Ansell
2hrs ago

Who is Laurie Daley's No.1 right now?

OPINIONWho makes Laurie Daley's Top 10 NRL player list?

Laurie Daley

Sanctioned: Paul Vaughan and Wayne Bennett.

The high price of an NRL biosecurity breach

Janine Graham

Is this your couch every night of the week now footy's all over the TV? No? Just mine, then.

Do star players need umpire protection?

2hrs ago

Aboriginal Affairs Minister Selena Uibo, NLC chair Samuel Bush-Blanasi, Chief Minister Michael Gunner and NLC CEO Marion Marion Scrymgour. Picture: supplied.

Deal struck to allow fishos to keep accessing coastal waters

Chris McLennan

BEST ON GROUND: All that Dustin Martin touched during the match against Brisbane turned to gold. Picture: Chris Hyde/Getty Images

OPINIONA fighting fury rises again from Tigerland

Rohan Connolly

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Picture: Getty Images

Queensland closes border to ACT and NSW

Kathryn Lewis

The best venue to watch the spectacle of Uluru is Longitude 131 with a gathering of luxury pavilions nestled among the rust-red landscape. The desert base fans out from the Dune House, site of lounging, cocktails and rock gazing.

The hottest events to thaw out at this spring

Melinda Healy

Dive to see beautiful underwater sculptures, crafted by Jason deCaires Taylor, while learning about the conservation of the Great Barrier Reef. Picture: Supplied

Luxury hotel brand to open its first Australian resort

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Cinema operator Greg Harmer wants to know how to win back support.

Cinema wants to know what movie-goers want

Chris McLennan

The first Police Station at Knotts Crossing, taken in 1911. Pictures: supplied.

WHAT'S ON'Last frontier' in policing remembered with Katherine exhibition

Chris McLennan

Another award for popular Katherine tourism and outback food experience, Marksie's Stockman's Camp Tucker on Gorge Road.

Marksie's glowing reviews are 20 years in the making

Chris McLennan

Cinema operator Greg Harmer wants to know how to win back support.

Cinema wants to know what movie-goers want

YAHOO: The hard slog by the organisers of the Katherine Races will see the event return in 2020 despite the pandemic restrictions which will see social distancing enforced.

Katherine is off and racing for 2020 after all

Tom Danks

Katie Holmes in The Secret: Dare to Dream. Picture: Supplied

REVIEWSyrupy story of self-actualisation

Cris Kennedy

PICTURESQUE: The Cathedral School of St Anne & St James is preparing to hold its first ever "Virtual Open Day" on May 16.

Townsville students host their school's first ever "Virtual Open Day"

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Emma Brown

From lifesaving to sanity saving, good customer service works

From lifesaving to sanity saving, good customer service works

Emma Brown

PICTURESQUE: The Cathedral School of St Anne & St James is preparing to hold its first ever "Virtual Open Day" on May 16.

Townsville students host their school's first ever "Virtual Open Day"

The path back to a new normal

The path back to a new normal

Emma Brown

Everyone's a winner with Pennytel

Everyone's a winner with Pennytel

Emma Brown

RENTAL TRENDS: Nationally, rent values declined 0.3% in the month of June, and 0.5% over the quarter. Photo - Shutterstock.

Rental market changes course

Ruth Lewis

2020 Winner: Cantala Avenue House wins this year's Australian House of the Year Photo - Christopher Frederick Jones.

Humble restoration defines the true meaning of home

Ruth Lewis

Tim McKibbin, CEO, Real Estate Institute NSW.

Building in a loan repayment buffer

Tim McKibbin

Beware of scams that impersonate government organisations. Some scammers calim they are from the Australian Tax Office.

Scamwatch: Don't fall for tax time scams

Connecting with your true self is the secret

Connecting with your true self is the secret

Gary Bentley

ON ALERT: Keep your legs and arms inside your boat at all times while fishing.

While you hunt fish, others in the water may be hunting you

Clare Pearce

Beware of scams that impersonate government organisations. Some scammers calim they are from the Australian Tax Office.

Scamwatch: Don't fall for tax time scams

Respect is at the heart of being our best self

Respect is at the heart of being our best self

Gary Bentley

Walking away is never the 'easy' option

Walking away is never the 'easy' option

Gary Bentley

This might be a fun roller coaster. The COVID numbers roller coaster is not.

DIGESTThe COVID numbers roller coaster is real

Victoria records 471 new COVID-19 cases, mental health support boosted

Victoria records 471 new COVID-19 cases, mental health support boosted

Australia coronavirus live updates: New restrictions kick in

NATIONALAustralia coronavirus live updates: New restrictions kick in

Police claim the man sped away from the border road block while driving on a cocktail of drugs. Pictures: NT Police.

Border road block pursuit from WA to Katherine

Of renters surveyed, more than half who had lost income did not ask for a reduction. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

SUBSCRIBERMajority of income-hit renters not getting satisfactory reductions

Lucy Bladen

An aircraft drops fire retardant on Mt Tennant earlier this year. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Call for domestic firefighting foam manufacturer amid COVID-19 supply chain issues

Katie Burgess

Images from regional Australia. Taken by, from left clockwise, Brendan McCarthy, Jonathan Carroll, Lachlan Bence and Adam McLean.

DIGESTIt's going to get worse before it gets better

Janine Graham

Mask wearing has become common place for many in NSW. Picture: Adam McLean.

All NSW residents returning from Victoria must now enter hotel quarantine

Kate McIlwain

David Pope's Masking for a Friend and (inset) May Gibb's piece for the anti-flu campaign in 1919. Copyright: The Northcott Society and Cerebral Palsy Alliance, 2020

The power of cartoons in times of crisis

Photo: Sally-Ann Thompson

From southern NSW to Tasmania, it's been a white Wednesday

Seniors' month kicks off in style - Gallery

Seniors' month kicks off in style - Gallery

Matterson Knyvett captured the moment a goanna latched onto his ankle while out on the job.

Is that a goanna wrapped around your ankle?

Matterson Knyvett captured the moment a goanna latched onto his ankle while out on the job.

Man films moment goanna latches onto his leg at McKinlay

Samantha Campbell

A beautiful sight as the baby boy's family checks he is doing ok after the birth on Monday, August 3. Picture: Mogo Wildlife Park.

Watch mother giraffe's first moments with baby son

Katherine finally gets a tennis tournament for 2020 - Gallery

Katherine finally gets a tennis tournament for 2020 - Gallery

Tom Danks

More restrictions are expected to be revealed for COVID-hit Victoria.

NATIONALAustralia coronavirus live updates: schools close

Janine Graham

Remember to mind your manners ... please | Mind Matters

OPINIONRemember to mind your manners ... please | Mind Matters

John Malouff
46m ago

FUTURE: John Hewson says we owe Australia's youth a better future. Photo: SHUTTERSTOCK

OPINIONDon't leave Australia's youth to pay the price | Hewson's View

John Hewson
2hrs ago

Fire tore through Tathra, NSW and surrounds in March 2018.

REAL AUSTRALIATime has come to learn from the frightening facts

Hayley Warden

Qantas flight attendant Sara Armbrecht at the Qantas Founders Museum holding two dolls dressed in her minature Qantas uniforms: a Pucci unform worn 1974 to 1985 (left) and the current uniform designed by Martin Grant.

Flights of fashion: Doll collection celebrates century of Qantas uniforms

Geraldine Cardozo

Reforms for NSW retirement villages.

Retirement village reforms welcomed

Eileen Wood

NSW Seniors Festival: so much to celebrate

NSW Seniors Festival: so much to celebrate

Wingham and Valley Vets director Alissa Healy

SUBSCRIBEROur vets are dying for your pets

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NSW is the first state to usher in new defamation laws spearhead by Attorney General Mark Speakman.

Modern defamation law reform passed in NSW

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Patrick Kear was most likely a homicide victim though his body has never been found, a coroner says.

'Homicide' behind missing NSW man's death

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Premier Steven Marshall says SA has been able to put a "net" over a COVID-19 cluster in Adelaide.

SA school closes as COVID-19 cluster grows

1hr ago

Victoria recorded 471 new COVID-19 cases and eight more deaths on Thursday.

Latest snapshot of the coronavirus impact

1hr ago

A manslaughter victim's partner sobbed in the Supreme Court as she described their relationship.

Melbourne man killed over affair claims

Georgie Moore
1hr ago

Some building site workers have better PPE than doctors and nurses, one health body has warned.

States could repeat Vic health 'failures'

Callum Godde
1hr ago

Leonie and Rebecca have shared a unique experience.

SUBSCRIBERSharing the gift of life and love: a surrogate's story

Jeanene Duncan
1hr ago

Katter's Australian Party leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter is demanding a quarantine contingency plan for North Queensland.

Renewed calls to lock-up North amid coronavirus fears

Jessica Johnston
1hr ago

Emerald farmer and Central Highlands Cotton Growers & Irrigators Association president Aaron Kiely believes there are opportunities to expand broadacre cropping in northern Australia.

Broadacre cropping focus for North

Jessica Johnston

Michelle Milicevics lime crop is part of trials using wood chip, tea tree and hay mulch.

Mulch trials to boost soil health

Jessica Johnston

OUCH: Ligament, sporting or trauma injury are typically behind keen pain in under 30s.

Get a handle on knee pain with the help of your GP

Healthshare

Revenue from rego wouldn't even maintain the roads we have, let alone build new ones.

It may hurt to hear, but most road aren't even made for you

Sam Hollier

How to eliminate fire hazards while working from home

How to eliminate fire hazards while working from home