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Territory Stingers women playing in the Malaysian Hockey League, season 2024-25. Picture: Muhd Haziq

Hockey NT launches Northern Gateway Initiative master plan

Fuelled by its exclusion from the Australian competition, Hockey NT has officially launched a four-year master plan to safeguard and grow the code. Here’s what you need to know.

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Chief executive of Private Healthcare Australia Dr Rachel David (left) has slammed Darwin Private Hospital operators Healthscope. Picture: Supplied

Uncertainty for Darwin Private Hospital’s future as Healthscope up for sale

Private insurers and families are questioning the future of Darwin Private Hospital after Healthscope put up for sale while MP Luke Gosling slams NT Government’s maternity plans.

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The emergency department entrance at Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH).

Acacia Inquiry reveals deep staff concern and substantial delays

More than a year after Acacia was pulled from Darwin and Palmerston EDs, there has been no date set for its reintroduction and staff are demanding significant change before they will go near it.

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Jess McCluskey (Right) is one of the expectant mums who is impacted by the decision to close the private maternity services in Darwin. (Left) Actress Sophia Emberson-Bain had her daughter at Darwin Private Hospital.

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NT mums living in ‘real fear’ for future of private maternity care

Jess McCluskey shares ‘real fears’ for a second birth amid private maternity ward closures, and mum and Aquaman actor, Sophia Anderson-Bain, said another pregnancy will mean leaving Darwin.

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Constable Zach Rolfe outside the Alice Springs Local Court on November 16 for an inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker. Picture: Jason Walls

RECAP: Three months of the Kumanjayi Walker coronial inquest

One of the Northern Territory’s longest-running inquest has wrapped up for the year. Read what the court has heard so far and why the wait for justice will continue.

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Warlpiri elder, Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves arrives at the Alice Springs Local Court on Monday, September 5, 2022. Picture: Jason Walls

Martial arts mentor revelation adds to police shooting intrigue

When Adam Eberl comforted Kumanjayi Walker as he lay dying on a police station floor, it wasn’t the first time he helped try to revive an Aboriginal man as his life slipped away before his eyes.

Friday 14th Rochester township floods from the Campaspe River as it rises through the streets. Picture: Jason Edwards

The floods through the eyes of a volunteer

Chris Nisbet is a CFA volunteer in Rochester. He’s used to fighting fires. But for the last week, he’s been working to help his flooded town. This is his story.

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Ben Hoffmann is held down by police after he allegedly killed four people and injured one in Darwin CBD, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Picture: Keri Megelus

How bloodthirsty killer’s night of terror changed the Territory

Three years after Ben Hoffmann’s bloodthirsty rampage, the man ‘connected to this in more ways than anybody else’ says his punishment is ‘absolutely just’.

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Di Stevens , one of the Bali Bombing First Responders as the 20th anniversary looms . Picture: Glenn Campbell

‘That was extraordinary’: Inside Darwin’s heroic Bali Bombings response

“It was just amazing, the strength of human spirit”: When victims of the horrific 2002 Bali bombings were evacuated to Darwin, the medical professionals tasked with treating them had no idea how severe and devastating the injuries would be.

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The mango festival is about to be a mango delight as visitors to Berry Springs market shower themselves in mango celebration. Colleen Chalmers, of Humpty Doo, wins the biggest mango competition at the Berry Springs markets.

It’s time to spring into the Top End’s favourite fruity festival

Territorians rejoice! Our yummiest, juiciest, most scrumptious event is just around the corner. Here’s everything you need to know about the Berry Springs Mango Festival.

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Exclusive: Coroner lays out preparations for Yuendumu inquest, plans for tenure

Exclusive: Coroner lays out preparations for Yuendumu inquest, plans for tenure

New Territory Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has sat down with the NT News for her first exclusive interview ahead of the upcoming inquest into the death of Yuendumu man Kumanjayi Walker.

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Former Northern Territory News editor Jim Bowditch has just discovered he is a World War II hero - in the United States. Fifty years after his service with a special commando force in Borneo earned him the United States Bronze Star, the US military has tracked down its Aussie hero. Mr Bowditch knows nothing of the search for him that continued for twenty years after the war. Published: 8/2/1995. Page 6.

‘Big Jim’: Crusading editor stood up for the underdog

The term ‘legend in his own lifetime’ is over-used but in the case of crusading editor of the Northern Territory News, Jim Bowditch, it was well deserved, according to a new book.

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Baby Francis Cavanagh's life was saved thanks to a transport incubator donated by the Humpty Dumpty Foundation. Picture: Supplied

‘A way to buy time’

Born needing major heart surgery, it was almost a certainty that Francis Cavanagh would not see his first birthday. Thanks to a lot of helping hands, he has his whole life ahead of him.

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Kalkarindji Child and Family Centre manager Quitaysha Thompson in May 2022. Picture: Jason Walls

National shame: Remote NT community takes crisis head on

In Kalkaringi, the Gurindji people are invoking the spirit of their famous ancestors to take on the next great challenge of our time, domestic violence. SEE THE STATS

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