Alice Springs

The results have prompted several peak Indigenous groups to call for people to follow mask mandates and lockdown directions and to get vaccinated.

A mask order will be in place in Alice Springs until at least 5pm on Christmas Eve, while interstate travellers will now be allowed to use rapid antigen tests instead of PCR tests to meet requirements after their arrival.

Police locate one of the men two days after the trio allegedly left the locked-down Tennant Creek on Saturday morning to make the 500 kilometre drive to Alice Springs.

HOTEL occupancy rates in the Top End are down 13 per cent compared to last year, while Alice Springs tourism has taken a $17,000 hit since last year.

Two town camps in Alice Springs have been selected as pilot sites for a new youth development program to begin these school holidays, in a trial that will run for the next six months.

Harris Shortland will spend more than six years behind bars after importing 40 grams of cocaine into Alice Springs from Los Angeles.

Mum helped me get back on track. She never gives up on me. She got me a job at a cattle station. I'd worked on different stations in the Northern Territory and in the Kimberley. I'm from Elliott, it's 700 kilometres north of Alice Springs.

A man has drowned in a swimming hole west of Alice Springs, NT Police says, with his body being recovered more than two days after he vanished.

A group of friends who went swimming in a waterhole on the weekend were met with tragedy after one of them disappeared. A man’s dead body has been found after he went missing from a water hole near Alice Springs on the weekend.

The NT Coroner has been asked to declare a car crash that claimed three lives as a case of Indigenous deaths in custody, despite police not using their sirens or lights to try to stop the vehicle.