Northern Territory, Australia News

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Police received a report about the deaths late last night. Map: Alice Springs 0870 Two men are believed to have been stabbed to death in a remote Central Australian community, Northern Territory Police say.

Thunderstorms in the tropics generate widespread cirrus clouds that are important in reflecting and absorbing energy.

An Aboriginal woman has told a murder committal hearing in Alice Springs that she thought a car that came towards her camp in the dry Todd River bed might be the Ku Klux Klan.

Australiaa s northwest is bracing for the first tropical cyclone of the season, which may develop today and has already forced PTT Exploration & Production Pcla s to begin evacuating workers from a well-head platform.

NASA's Terra satellite captured an infrared image of Tropical Storm Laurence on Dec.

Six cases of children under the age of 10 with sexually transmitted diseases were reported in the first six months of 2009.

Australian movie "Samson and Delilah," about the plight of many Aboriginal communities, won the country's top film award Saturday, another major prize this year after it scored honors at the Cannes Film Festival.

A "few clowns" caught the attention of Northern Territory police during the nationwide blitz on alcohol-related violence, but acting deputy commissioner Grahame Kelly was pleased with the low number of offences.

Researchers conduct fire burn-off with Indigenous people in the Northern Territory.

Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has pledged new funds and services for indigenous people in Alice Springs town camps during a fleeting visit to the desert city.

SINGER Jessica Mauboy didn't walk away from the ARIA Awards with the haul of trophies some expected, but it's onwards or upwards for the rising star who is getting rave reviews on her film debut.

Prison gangs have started cleaning up the Alice Springs town camps, with Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin saying the work will benefit the elderly, women and children.

The Australian government signed an agreement with Nextgen Networks to construct the new broadband backbone infrastructure under the $250 million Regional Backbone Blackspots Program.

Traces of the fear-filled days during the Second World War can be found in and around Darwin, a tropical city in Australia's Northern Territory.

A feral camel searches for food near the dry Ross River 85 kms west of Alice Springs.

A Northern Territory cattlewoman has launched a call to arms to curb the nation's feral camel plague.

A landmark Australian project that mitigates the extent and severity of natural savannah blazes by deploying traditional Indigenous fire management techniques is being hailed as a model with vast global potential in the fights against climate change and biodiversity loss, and for protecting Indigenous lands and culture.

A community-based program aimed at reducing the burden of skin disease across remote communities in Australia's Northern Territory has been successful according to a study published November 24 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Eventually curiosity gets the better of me and, on a typically empty stretch of tar seal some 100km west of Alice Springs, I stop the car and climb a rocky outcrop.