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North Queensland's long injury list has another addition with Kurt Baptiste's knee injury suffered on Test duty confirmed as season-ending.

The sight of Ashley Taylor smiling and barking orders at Gold Coast training on Monday has been welcomed by his NRL teammates.

Queensland back-rower Josh McGuire is facing a one-game NRL ban for his hit on NSW five-eighth James Maloney in the dying moments of Sunday's State of Origin clash.

A young man pictured in a party shirt is wanted by police over a spate of indecent acts in front of women on trains across Sydney.

A woman is behind bars after a man was stabbed three times in the neck in the NSW Southern Tablelands.

Tom Trbojevic insists he wasn't lost in Perth.Considered a risky selection in the centres for State of Origin II, Trbojevic spent a lot of time in the middle for NSW in their 38-6 rout of Queensland on Sunday.

Air Canada says it's looking into how crew members could have disembarked from a plane without noticing a sleeping passenger who was left behind.

STATE OF ORIGIN II AT A GLANCE* RESULT: NSW 38 (tries: Tom Trbojevic 3, Josh Addo-Carr 2, Tyson Frizell; goals: Nathan Cleary 2, James Maloney 5) bt Queensland 6 (tries: Will Chambers; goals: Kalyn Ponga).

A young cyclist has been left to die on the road after he was struck in a hit-and-run incident in northern NSW, police say.

An inmate has been rushed to hospital after he was assaulted at a high-security prison near Geelong in Victoria.