CAMDEN HAVEN: There is a community meeting at Kendall today for all volunteers involved in the search for missing William Tyrell. All the details here

TAREE: More smiling footballers ... this time from Forster-Tuncurry. Check out more photos here

WAUCHOPE: The Hastings League grand final was played at Wauchope on Saturday. Congrats to victors ... Kendall. Check out the action photos here

Good morning - need a national news snapshot? We have you covered. 

The Middle Brother State Forest is a lonely place for a little boy.

Just off the Pacific Highway, on the NSW mid-north coast, a gravel road snakes through 30-metre high trees and dry, tangled bush.

For days, SES and police have searched deep into the thick forest looking for anything – clothing, rubbish, a weapon – that may have been discarded from a car carrying three-year-old William Tyrell.

But every day since William went missing from his grandmother's backyard in Kendall on September 12, wearing his favourite Spider-Man suit, searchers have returned with the same answer: "Nil result". Full story.

A Qantas flight has been diverted because of drunk, Scotch-stealing passenger.

The Sydney-bound flight from Bangkok was forced to land in Cairns about 5.45am on Sunday after the male passenger allegedly broke through four sets of plastic handcuffs on the flight. Seven Australian Federal Police officers escorted him from the plane upon arrival in Cairns. Full story.

In the NRL, a brain explosion by Bulldog Michael Ennis handed Manly a try to level the game as a heated final got even hotter. The Bulldogs held on to win 18-17, but the Saturday night game has brought the NRL's messy one-punch rule back into the spotlight. Full story.

Check out some of the front pages across our regional network

9.30am Brisbane: Russian President Vladimir Putin looks destined to be on his way to Brisbane in November after a push to have him banned from the G20 summit was seemingly put to bed in Cairns on Saturday. Read more.

9.15am  A 71-year-old man has been treated for burns after a house fire in the Illawarra. Full story.

9am History in pictures. 

8.50am Tamworth: A former Armidale student and head of a multimillion-dollar drug empire who kidnapped and murdered his syndicate’s “ice cook” will spend up to 32 years in jail. Full story.

8.40am Albury: Thelma McEachern, an Albury identity and one of the heroes of Australia’s World War II nursing history, has died. She was well known as one of six Australian nurses evacuated from Singapore with their patients aboard the Wah Sui during the Japanese advance. Full story.

8.30am Bendigo: The Bendigo Football and Netball League's grand final day was a thriller on Saturday. Relive the day that culminated in Strathfielsaye crowned 2014 BFNL premiers. Photos, videos, stories.

8.20am Newcastle: There was chaos on a Newcastle Street when the brakes on a delivery truck loaded with tiles failed just before it reached the peak of an uphill street. Full story.

8.15am Port Macquarie: Police are hunting two men after a 25-year-old was fatally stabbed in the Port Macquarie CBD overnight. Police and paramedics attempted to resuscitate the man, but he died in hospital two hours after the attack. Full story.

The Examiner: Warmer sea currents could be behind the sighting of a rare fish in Tasmanian waters. Full story.

The Courier: The City of Ballarat agreed not to press for a conviction against a heritage vandal who demolished a key part of gold rush history without permission. Full story.

Mandurah: Internal Affairs officers were called to Mandurah following the shooting of a man on Myerick Street on Saturday evening. The man is believed to have been armed when he was shot in the leg about 7pm. Police will not say whether he was shot by an officer. Full story.

The Advocate: A four-year-old boy was hit by a car outsite the Burnie Centro shopping complex on Saturday. He was taken to hospital in a serious condition. Full story. 

Papua New Guinea: An Australian pilot was one of three people killed when their plane crashed near Port Moresby on Saturday. Investigators are yet to determine the cause of the crash. More here..

Edinburgh: Scotland has voted "No" to independence – but the United Kingdom still faces its biggest political revolution in centuries. More here.

Primary School will honour the memory of student Max Robertson with the launch of a track in his name on Friday.

Max's Track is in memory of the grade five student, who died one day short of his 11th birthday in May. Full story.

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