The Latest Breaking News from Darwin

Top End residents are preparing for heavy downpours and destructive winds as the first cyclone of the season approaches, prompting an offer of federal support.

Tropical Cyclone Fina has upset many travel plans, with some people left stranded when a cruise ship company cancelled a port stop.

Bottled water, bread, canned foods and other household goods have moved off supermarket shelves at a fast rate as residents prepare for a tropical cyclone.

Climate advocates fear the project, proposed by Japanese oil and gas giant Inpex, would turn the area into the ‘world’s largest carbon dumping ground’

Sydney, Brisbane and Darwin are predicted to hit hottest October in terms of maximum temperatures, the Bureau of Meteorology says

The federal government is considering enforcement action against oil and gas company Inpex after it admitted serious reporting errors that significantly underestimated hazardous emissions released from its liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on Darwin Harbour over many years.

“It is the closest all of us passengers ever want to come to a plane crash,” a Qantas flight QF1889’s passenger said after the plane suddenly descended about 20,000 feet on Monday September 22, and diverted back to Darwin.

A massive floating factory has received its first gas from a field off Darwin in welcome news for a company in the spotlight after takeover talks collapsed.

Just weeks after giving birth to her second child, the actor and writer discusses Darwin, her first love and her commitment to creating complicated Indigenous characters

There were differing fortunes for Australia's national hockey teams at the Oceania Cup, with the Kookaburras lifting the trophy but the Hockeyroos missing out.

The Kookaburras have clinched the Oceania Cup with a game to spare, Ky Willott scoring twice in a 4-1 victory over New Zealand in Darwin.