The Latest Breaking News from Top End

Having already conquered the dizzying heights of the Mount Everest Base Camp, Mount Kilimanjaro and The Sandakan Death March in Borneo as well as the Kokoda Track, a crew representing the Mark Hughes Foundation is setting off on another gruelling challenge - a trek through the Top End of Australia.

NT Police say a motorcyclist has died in a collision in Darwin's northern suburbs. A man has also died in a single vehicle rollover further down the Top End coast.

The Northern Territory has some of the most pristine rivers in the world. But amid the big push to develop northern Australia, industries are lining up to take water from these wild waterways.

As international travellers return to the NT, Tourism Top End is seeking legal advice about what they can — and can't — include in a voluntary code of conduct for tour operators in Kakadu National Park.

A tropical low in the Timor Sea has moved slightly west overnight, as authorities continue to monitor whether the system will develop into a category two cyclone over the coming days.

Residents of a group of defective Top End rentals — intended to house low and middle income-earners — were warned they would need to evacuate their homes if a cyclone warning was issued for Greater Darwin.

Three years after nine Top End buildings were found to be structurally non-compliant, the Northern Territory government has introduced reforms to avoid a similar building bungle happening again.

Fifty years ago, crocodiles had been shot to near extinction in the Northern Territory. Now the apex predators again dominate the waterways, raising questions about their coexistence with humans.