Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

AUSTRALIA is set for an out-there weekend of extreme weather with tropical cyclones, driving rain, baking heat and fire fears. An already scorching ... In the Top End, it's rain — not fire — residents need to watch out for with Cyclone Marcus expected to form off the Northern Territory coast by Friday night.

Darwin is in the direct line of a cyclone expected to form into a category 2 storm north of Australia on Friday. Residents of the Northern Territory capital city and across the Top End have been warned to prepare for Cyclone Marcus, which is predicted to make landfall overnight and hit Darwin in the early ...

The motorcycle which fatally collided with a car in Darwin's rural area overnight wasn't registered or fitted with a headlight, according to NT Police. Xavier Lengyel, 16, was riding along Leonino Road in Darwin River around 7.30pm yesterday when it's believed a car overtook another vehicle and crashed ...

A Darwin businessman who used a "confirmation of Aboriginality" certificate to obtain a $407,000 Indigenous grant, has had the document called into ... The money is awarded to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people looking to grow their businesses to fulfil a need in the community and ...

A tropical cyclone is expected to form off Australia's north today and move above Western Australia's Kimberley region over the weekend. ... "We're working in very close collaboration, not just with the cyclone warning centre in Darwin, but also the various emergency agencies both in the NT and in WA," Mr ...

A heritage-listed Darwin tree that survived at least two devastating cyclones, the arrival of European settlers and a Japanese bombing has died, leaving just five listed trees in the Northern Territory city. The milkwood tree in downtown Darwin was given protection in 2006 as a rare example of the vegetation ...

Anyone who's stayed in Darwin long enough to venture out of its CBD will be familiar with the building sometimes colloquially referred to as the Acropolis — and sometimes, less kindly, as the Acrapolis. The immaculately shaped concrete panels and pillars suggest a grand vision evoking the elegant temple ...