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The president of a NT footy club says players barricaded themselves in a locker room for more than an hour after a wild brawl broke out at the end of a grand final match.

The NT AFL is investigating the circumstances around a massive fight that broke out after a grand final footy match, and has labelled the incident 'appalling', and says violence is 'not welcome in our game'.

While the fears continue over foot and mouth, there's another disease on Australia's doorstep spread by insects that's threatening to halt cattle, meat and dairy exports. Kath Sullivan reports.

Investigators have determined the cause of a massive blaze that destroyed $30 million of medical equipment for the Northern Territory's hospitals.

Around 20,000 Aboriginal voters are thought to be missing from the NT electoral role, but with a referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament on the horizon, there's a desperate push to see rates increase — and positive signs are already emerging.

A company has revealed plans to mine sand in the Northern Territory. It is also exploring for silica sand, which it says could be sold to Asian countries for solar panel production.

The worker shortage forces Kimberley banana farmer Lachlan Dobson to rip up 50ha of banana crop and replace it with less labour intensive, and less profitable, cotton.

At the 56th anniversary of the Wave Hill walk-off — a seminal event that galvanised national change and paved the way for equal wages for Aboriginal workers, as well as a new land rights act – history was made again.

It's been 56 years since Vincent Lingiari paved the way for the Aboriginal land rights movement with the Wave Hill walk-off. But his descendants continue that fight today. 

It's been 56 years since Vincent Lingiari led some 200 stockmen and their families from Wave Hill Station in protest of years of exploitation. Today, thousands of people re-created those historic steps.

When Vincent Lingiari led 200 stockmen away from Wave Hill station in protest of unfair working conditions in 1966, he wouldn't have foreseen it becoming a seminal turning point in Australian history.

A Northern Territory police officer is expected to be charged with several offences, while another has been bailed after being charged with two counts of aggravated assault.

The mighty Overland Telegraph Line — covering the width of the continent — was connected, allowing fast communication between Australia and the rest of the world for the first time.

At the time, a wire through the centre of Australia was touted as one of the country's greatest accomplishments. But for First Nations people, it took a gruelling toll.

A massive fire that tore through a medical supplies warehouse in Darwin has triggered a "system-wide" response from the Northern Territory health department.

Her story offers an insight into life as an Aboriginal woman in the 20th century, from being displaced from her land and helping with the war effort, to being unable to marry without a permit.

It was the internet before the internet and it changed the country forever, built in a race against the clock and the harsh elements of the outback to connect Australia to the globe.

Ms Camfoo's story offers an insight into life as aboriginal woman in the 20th century, from being displaced from her land and helping with the war effort, to being unable to marry without a permit. 

Featuring high-stakes training scenarios and up to 100 fighter jets from across the world, the Royal Australian Air Force's biggest international training exercise is back after a four-year hiatus.

Nicole Hayes was among hundreds of pastoralists who met in Darwin today discussing more ways to prevent any possible foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Australia. 

A company that for seven years has been growing indian sandalwood on a former NT cattle station is looking to offload the property that has "underperformed for a variety of reasons".

A tiny remote school in the NT is achieving big things after a long search for some of Australia's most elusive and endangered animals.

Students bring in spy cameras, commission DNA tests, and search high and low in their "treasure hunt" to find endangered animals in one of the most remote parts of the country.

The tiny school in the isolated community of Manyallaluk, more than 400 kilometres south of Darwin in the Northern Territory, have spent the past few years searching for wild and exotic animals.

Across a massive part of the Northern Territory, the nearest women's safety shelter is hours away. Residents are turning their own homes into overnight safe houses.