Akubras are not the only accessory on heads in the main street of Charters Towers, with VR goggles becoming increasingly common and helping showcase the town's role in the Battle of the Coral Sea.

The Queensland Ethical Standards Command will review an incident after a "disturbing" video emerged showing a police officer appearing to strike a woman several times in the face.

Police say a group of children were playing at Townsville's Ross River Park when the twin girls from the Congo went into the water near a place where two brothers, aged three and five, died in February.

Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill says homelessness charities providing food and laundry services are "enabling people to live a lifestyle" without doing anything to stop antisocial behaviour.

Time has run out for the owners of 14 holiday shacks near Ingham in north Queensland with the State Government ordering their removal by the end of the month.

A five-year-old boy has died in North Queensland after he was hit by a car overnight while riding his bicycle along the footpath with his father.

Thousands of Townsville locals have gathered to break the world record for 'the most people wearing high-visibility vests at a single venue'.

Two holidaying nurses want to have a beer with two "cool" English tourists who managed to keep positive minutes after being attacked by a shark. The nurses provided first aid which is credited with saving the men's lives.

Witness AAA tells the disability royal commission her daughter was "screamed at" by teachers in Year 1, not given access to the curriculum and did not receive permission forms for excursions and other activities.

Witness AAC says five of her children with disability have had negative experiences with the education system, with problems ranging from verbal abuse to denial of access to bathroom facilities and other restrictive practices.

Children sleeping at home have been woken and arrested in Alice Springs, according to lawyers dismayed at a potential government back down on the use of arrest as a last resort.

A Senate inquiry in the Northern Territory reveals decomposing bodies are being transported on ageing aircraft without refrigeration, potentially posing a massive biohazard risk.

With skin sores, respiratory tract and ear infections and sore throats common in remote Indigenous communities, experts are urging immediate action to combat the rising rates of antibiotic resistance.

A school in the heart of the desert has been covered with thousands of icicles, as the mercury plummets to new lows across the the NT

In a ground-breaking collaboration, Melbourne fashion label Gorman teams up with Indigenous artists whose work depicts places where sacred cultural knowledge has been passed down for thousands of years.

The Northern Territory's Police Commissioner and soon-to-be federal police chief admits some of his officers inappropriately accessed the private medical records of a public servant.

The records of children and teachers have been left vulnerable to cyber security attacks due to an oversight from the Northern Territory Government, a report from the auditor general's Office has revealed.

The nation's vast network of outback tracks may hold a special place in the hearts and minds of intrepid Australians, but many are shocked by the litter.

The 41-year-old man from a remote Central Australian community was found guilty of two counts of "sexual intercourse without consent" for a sustained assault in which he raped and punched his aunt and then brandished a shovel at her as she tried to flee.

In the 12 months to June this year, there were 2,472 residential break-ins reported to police across the Northern Territory the highest annual figure since 2008.

Tengentyere Council chief executive Walter Shaw says police auxiliaries followed him to a friend's house and then back to his town camp, where he says they pepper-sprayed his dog and searched his car before acknowledging he had no alcohol.

Aboriginal leaders on South Australia's remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands should consider suspending their manager Richard King while an investigation is carried out into the use of Commonwealth funding, an independent report has found.

Bushwalkers and map sellers say the decision by Geoscience Australia to stop printing and selling topographic maps will put people's safety at risk and impact on our understanding of remote Australia.

Participants in this horticulture program say they are growing in confidence as they are growing fruit and vegetables.

An Alice Springs social worker who has given a voice to Aboriginal women and a Darwin doctor who oversaw the RAAF Cyclone Tracy evacuations have been honoured.

Rural independents are proving a difficult test for the Coalition in this election. But the pathway to parliament is harder than it might seem.

Police charge a woman with common assault after the Prime Minister is egged while meeting with delegates from the Country Women's Association in Albury, on the NSW-Victorian border.