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Liverpool Plains Shire Council's new general manager Joanne Sangster. Photo: LG Focus

Vic Daly boss takes a new job in NSW

Chris McLennan

Flight Lieutenants James, Sam and Trent after their formation flight over South Australia. Pictures: Defence Media.

Tindal trio return home to show off their skills

Chris McLennan

It has been about six months since the CEO of Katherine Town Council Rob Jennings announced his departure.

Six months and counting, search continues for council CEO

Roxanne Fitzgerald
1hr ago

Jabiru currently receives its electrical power from Ranger's generators.

Power-packed plan to get Kakadu back on track

Chris McLennan
2hrs ago

The aquifer is a key source for dry season flows for the Katherine and Daly rivers. Picture: NT Government.

Aquifer water allocation plan declared

Chris McLennan

The Northern Territory's Public Guardian Beth Walker is proposing changes to guardianship laws, which currently don't recognise family members as legal decision makers in the health care system.

The NT's Public Guardian calls for changes to guardianship laws

Roxanne Fitzgerald

Australians can help this Christmas by making a donation to help a child keep up at school through our reading and mentoring programs and after-school Learning Clubs.

The Smith Family launches its annual Christmas Appeal

Roxanne Fitzgerald

Liverpool Plains Shire Council's new general manager Joanne Sangster. Photo: LG Focus

Vic Daly boss takes a new job in NSW

Chris McLennan

Flight Lieutenants James, Sam and Trent after their formation flight over South Australia. Pictures: Defence Media.

Tindal trio return home to show off their skills

Chris McLennan

There are hundreds of dressed up termite mounds along the Stuart Highway, which runs the north-south length of Australia, and all around the NT. Pictures: Professor Claire Smith.

Academics ponder what dressed up termite mounds say about Territorians

HANDY: A come from behind home ground win against strong opposition (Nightcliff is third) helps set up the Under 18's season. File picture.

Home game win for the Hawks

Chris McLennan

The Katherine women's football team is bracing for a hot game on Saturday against the Southern Districts as temperatures are set to reach 43 degrees. Picture: Chris McLennan.

Katherine footy players brace for impending heatwave

Roxanne Fitzgerald

Katherine footy players brace for heatwave match

Roxanne Fitzgerald

HANDY: A come from behind home ground win against strong opposition (Nightcliff is third) helps set up the Under 18's season. File picture.

Home game win for the Hawks

Tennant Creek coaches with a bunch of the youth taking part in the new John Moriarty Football program. Picture: Supplied.

John Moriarty footy program unlocks potential in Tennant Creek

Roxanne Fitzgerald

Jamie McGuinness couldn't believe it when he saw the little tag, covered in barnacles. Picture: Supplied.

Historic catch puts King Ash Bay fishing on the map

Roxanne Fitzgerald

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Matt Preston has fallen in love with vegetables. Picture: Mark Roper

More than just vegetables

Karen Hardy

Corn and chorizo salad. Picture: Bec Hudson

A food adventure around the world

Christmas hams are likely to hurt the hip pocket this year, after swine fever decimated pig stocks.

Christmas ham prices may soar in Australia

Christine McGinn

Matt Preston has fallen in love with vegetables. Picture: Mark Roper

More than just vegetables

Katherine's record heatwave is predicted to last 16 days but only to ease slightly on Friday.

'Extreme' heatwave enters its 12th day

Chris McLennan

Popular serviced apartment property, Metro Advance Apartments & Hotel in the heart of Darwin city, is offering 20% off for Territorians until April 30, 2020.

Top place for a short break this wet season

Chris McLennan

In service: Jane McNamara with Dave Morrissey on the Flinders Highway which is now fully blanketed by the Optus mobile network.

Creating choice in the North

Matt Sherrington,

Vehicles face airbag registration ban

Vehicles face airbag registration ban

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Future Focus: connecting regional Australia

Future Focus: connecting regional Australia

Gemma Purves

In service: Jane McNamara with Dave Morrissey on the Flinders Highway which is now fully blanketed by the Optus mobile network.

Creating choice in the North

The time leading up to Christmas is rife with offers too good to resist. So make the most of them early, like this Nokia phone offer from Pennytel, which can help you prepare for the good times ahead and even finish your shopping.

'Tis the way to stay in touch this Christmas

HAND UP: Collaborative AI, in which people and AI team up, will change the way we work.

Collaborate: AI can be your friend

Ben Jackson

The aquifer is a key source for dry season flows for the Katherine and Daly rivers. Picture: NT Government.

Aquifer water allocation plan declared

Chris McLennan

An Argentinian based company is buying up cattle stations close to Katherine in the NT. Picture: Elders.

Argentinians swoop on third Katherine cattle station

Chris McLennan

House prices have fallen again in Katherine, according to Govt economic advice.

ANALYSISKatherine house prices on the slide, says the Govt

Chris McLennan

Liverpool Plains Shire Council's new general manager Joanne Sangster. Photo: LG Focus

Vic Daly boss takes a new job in NSW

Chris McLennan

Local Girl Guides Kylie Lambert and Evie Arnott were part of a new recycling initiative in Katherine this year. Picture: Roxanne Fitzgerald.

NT girl guides part of big merger

Chris McLennan

The Government promised 500 extra Aboriginal people would be employed in frontline service roles, such as teaching, nursing and policing, by 2026.

Apply for a $15,000 Aboriginal teaching scholarship

Chris McLennan

Liverpool Plains Shire Council's new general manager Joanne Sangster. Photo: LG Focus

Vic Daly boss takes a new job in NSW

Rev Kristan Slack.

Thanking our government, and others

Rev Kristan Slack

BLESSED WITH BIRDLIFE: Bar Shouldered Doves are one of the most common bird species in our backyards.

We're blessed when doves fly

Clare Pearce

A giant weather system to our northwest is keeping the arrival of the wet season at bay.

Rain back on the radar for Katherine on Friday

ONLY THE LONELY: A new nationwide survey reveals a loneliness epidemic permeating the country, particularly impacting one in three young adults, aged 18-24.

REAL AUSTRALIAAll the lonely people. Where do they all come from?

The sorting machine in action.

Australia's only Nespresso pod recycling centre

How cartoonist Pat Campbell saw the "now is not the right time to discuss climate change" message

REAL AUSTRALIAFire burn and cauldron bubble

Photo: Dean Sewell, SMH

REAL AUSTRALIAWe borrow the earth from our children

Letitia Fitzpatrick

Hector is a real giant of the Top End.

Hector is a giant of the Top End

Chris McLennan

The Sunday Roast | Back to 1985

The Sunday Roast | Back to 1985

Roxanne Fitzgerald

The long form TV style gives time for the exploration of landscape, stories, culture and history. Picture: Supplied.

The outback uses 'slow TV' to share stories, culture

Roxanne Fitzgerald

Wait: The most important word in cricket

OPINIONWait: The most important word in cricket

Janine Graham

END THE STIGMA: No one should be made to feel ashamed for seeking help or guidance when a life is in danger.

OPINIONWhy we need to keep talking about suicide

Father Brendan Lee

Some hope amongst the climate change foolishness

OPINIONSome hope amongst the climate change foolishness

Dr Mary McMillan

RAINBOW RIBBON: Queensland AIDS Council CEO Rebecca Reynolds, Arcare CEO Colin Singh, Local Liberal state member for Bonney, Sam OConnor at the opening of Arcare Parkwood.

Queensland's first LGBTI aged care opens

OUCH: Corticosteroid injections versus orthotics.

Heel pain: to jab or not to jab?

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Polio survivors at Polio Australia's 2017 health and wellness retreat on the Sunshine Coast.

Demanding action for polio survivors

Rowan Cowley

Pauline Hanson and Jacqui Lambie want more details on the government's union busting legislation.

Senators demand more detail on union bill

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NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet has released a new economic blueprint for the state.

NSW blueprint seeks trillion-dollar future

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Environment minister Sussan Ley says koala experts will discuss the animals' future after bushfires.

Ley calls on koala experts post bushfires

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James Gargasoulas was paranoid and deluded before before the Bourke St rampage, a detective says.

Bourke St killer was not 'playing' cops

1hr ago

Adelaide is on track to smash its November temperature record amid catastrophic bushfire conditions.

Power cuts as Adelaide swelters

1hr ago

More than $300 million worth of low-interest loans will be provided to help fund community housing.

New fund rollout for low cost homes

Finbar O'Mallon
1hr ago

NSW legislation cracking down on dodgy building standards has been delayed in state Parliament.

NSW government's building bill delayed

Jodie Stephens
1hr ago

A Victorian Nonna has been without a continuous landline since June due to problems with the NBN.

Elderly Vic nonna cut off from landlines

Christine McGinn
1hr ago

Flourishing prickly acacia bushes spreading out from the Flinders River are one of a number of biosecurity risks groups want to see funded under the state government's new pest and weed strategy.

Pest and weed strategy only words at the moment

Sally Cripps

Cloncurry mayor Greg Campbell, Boeing's senior manager experimentation Rob Hargrave and state development minister Cameron Dick with an example of a drone that could be tested at Cloncurry's new facility.

Australia-first drone testing site to call Cloncurry home

Victoria Nugent

Ken Rutherford pictured with Lucie-Anne Kirk and top priced bull Hazelton Milburn 4942, who sold for $20,000.

Beef Country bull sale tops at $20,000

Our team took blood samples, four DNA samples and imbedded two GPS tracking devices while myself and eight others worked hard to keep the animal upright. Photos: Scott McRae

Combining conservation with wanderlust

Scott McRae

Working out how to switch off all the lights in a hotel room shouldn't be that difficult ... should it? Picture: Supplied

Room for improvement: What hotels could be doing better

Michael Turtle

Wineglass Bay: Guests will learn about the unique animals that live there and the peninsula's history, including the pink granite peaks of the Hazards Mountains.

Have wanderlust? Here are travel news bites

INSPIRED: The Doonan Glasshouse boasts minimalist details, a pared back palette and a lush, tropical backdrop surrounding this modern family home.

Bathroom tips from inside the Doonan Glasshouse

Yucca Zehnder could also be used as a room divider and is available in many colours.

The art of hydronic heating

Don't risk it: Dogs will often try to chase or kill snakes resulting in snake bites usually to the dog's face and legs.

Protect your pets from snakes