Pioneers of remote learning
In 2020, millions of schoolchildren around the world had their first experience of remote learning.
But for staff and students at the Alice Springs...
A fresh approach to food waste
RESIDENTS of Alice Springs now have a new way to reduce the food they waste - which sometimes makes up a third of all...
Locals warned against lighting fires
The entire Northern Territory has been declared a fire danger area until March next year, as flames leapt up from embers of a smouldering...
Mixed feelings on fuel prices
Amid upward trends in fuel prices, locals and tourists differ on the impact at the pump.
Adam Doyle was passing through Alice with his son...
Helping prevent suicide
Keeping Everyone Safe is the title, and aim, of the Territory Labor Government’s new Suicide Prevention Strategic Framework Implementation Plan 2023 -2028, launched last...
What’s on
Desert Mob Exhibition
8 – 22 September
Araluen Arts Centre
The Desert Mob 2023 exhibition showcases 35 art centres and is an invitation to view hundreds of...
Faces of Australia
I was born in Melbourne in 1932. At age 17 I traveled with my ex school mate
Ron Smith, on the old Ghan steam train...
Barry skips into folk awards
An Alice Springs favourite muso, Barry Skipsey is on a path to Australian Folk Music Awards stardom, his new album The Wrong Tram one...
Fighting fire with fire
The ute ahead of us pulls over to the side of the track, emergency lights painting the night blue and red through the smoky...
Trim approach to helping out
Learning a new trade is no easy feat for anyone - but learning it when your critic is a fine connoisseur of the great...