Truck Overboard on the Stuart Highway
It could have been the scene from a Mad Max movie gone wrong as an overturned semi trailer lay in the red dust on the side of the Stuart Highway on Sunday.
View ArticleYuendumu night patrol
Georgina Wilson has been involved in Night Patrol for nine years and is one of five senior women who regularly patrol the streets of Yuendumu at night.
View ArticleA people's history of Alice Springs
The archive, which so far numbers a thousand photos dating from the early 1900s to the 1980s, represents a form of archiving where people's personal photos suddenly become historic artefacts available...
View ArticleVolunteers to aid flooded outback town
Emergency services volunteers are travelling to a remote central Australian community to assist with ongoing flood relief efforts.
View ArticleVolunteer named Centralian of the Year
An Alice Springs volunteer says he is overwhelmed to have been named Centralian of the Year at last night's Australia Day Ball in Darwin.
View ArticleNT Country Hour podcast 10/03/10
Children join forces with uni students planting trees for bush tucker and a train used to help milk cows.
View ArticleNT Country Hour podcast 25/06/2010
How is face book and other social media including phone texting helping indigenous children in remote communities overcome their reading problems and should more people be putting up their hands.
View ArticleGolden Hearts Awards
The Northern Territory celebrates its larger than life heroes with community gatherings and, in the case of Tennant Creek, the Great Big Golden Heart presented at the inaugural awards night recently.
View ArticleQuita's ride
Earlier this year, Bush Telegraph ventured north, hitting the road and travelling from Darwin down to the red centre at Alice Springs.
View ArticleAlice volunteer awarded
As part of International Women's Day celebrations, Betty Thompson has been presented with a Tribute to Territory Women award today. She travelled with her husband to Alice Springs in a horse and cart...
View ArticleBushfires NT pleads for more volunteers
The Northern Territory's rural bushfire agency is reporting a downturn in volunteer numbers, ahead of an increased fire danger period later this year.
View ArticleFiries call for help
"We've still got the worst weather conditions to come, as we move into spring we get a lot of quite windy, hot weather and those conditions are ideal for fires to run."
View ArticleRed Centre town seeks aid in dangerous fire season
An Alice Springs Alderman says the local fire station needs more officers.
View ArticleDamage bill grows as firebugs torch Red Centre
Deliberately-lit fires have caused more than $100,00 damage at Alice Springs over the weekend.
View ArticleHealth professionals take care to bush communities
The Remote Area Health Corps is celebrating reaching the milestone of 1,000 short-term health professional placements in remote Indigenous communities across the Northern Territory.
View ArticleAnger blazes in battle to hold Red Centre fires
Northern Territory Chief Minister Paul Henderson says he is angry to hear many of the fires burning in Central Australia have been deliberately lit.
View ArticleFlying Doctor strikes gold in the Todd River
Every morning Margaret-Ann McNaught rides her motor scooter on her way to church. But on the way there and back, she stops off along the Todd River in Alice Springs to collect rubbish. "I've got a...
View ArticleFire Season
The dry season is upon us, and Territory residents are being urged to prepare for a big fire season. The rapid spread of the invasive weed, gamba grass, is creating huge fuel loads in the Top End.
View ArticleDesert gliding with Mr Bird
Tom Bird has been flying over the desert for more than 50 years - come fly with him
View ArticleLand for Wildlife grows across the Barkly
The pale green Land for Wildlife signs have become part of the landscape for rural blocks in the Alice Springs area.
View ArticleLand for Wildlife grows across the Barkly
The pale green Land for Wildlife signs have become part of the landscape for rural blocks in the Alice Springs area.
View ArticleVolunteers rev up for desert race clean-up
Volunteers from Alice Springs have collected more than seven tonnes of rubbish in the aftermath of the Finke Desert Race.
View ArticleDeadline looms for Centralian of the Year nominations
The Alice Springs Town Council is calling for nominations for the Centralian of the Year Awards.
View ArticleFilm society reeling over threatened funding cut
Members of a volunteer film society in Alice Springs say they are in shock after being told the National Film and Sound Archive plans to cut funding for its lending service.
View ArticleTennant Creek honours community achievers
An award ceremony in Tennant Creek at the weekend has celebrated residents who work to make the region a better place.
View ArticleThousands expected to flock to Alice Springs Show
More than 18,000 people are expected to pass through the gates of the Alice Springs Show, which kicked off this morning.
View ArticleTennant Creek's rubbish becomes art in community effort
A colourful garden display encourages people to make a wish for the town.
View ArticleNo more Finke campers, says CEO of road transport society
Claims of threatening behaviour by campers during the Finke Desert Race has lead the Road Transport Hall of Fame to say 'no more campers'.
View ArticleAfter the fire: Pinery residents return home
Tears and tales from residents returning home in the first hours after a catastrophic bushfire swept through their town.
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