The Nelson teenager has signed a two-year deal with the Warriors and will start out in their under-21 team. Stuff sports reporters

The PNG Chiefs are set to use a luxury multimillion-dollar player village to attract players and officials to come and play for the NRL’s 19th expansion team.

Emerging superpowers Samoa and Tonga will field formidable teams loaded with NRL talent in the third edition of the Pacific Championships.

Rugby Australia has tabled a five-year contract for Max Jorgensen to keep the rising star out of the clutches of R360 and rugby league. Iain Payten

The 2025 NRL season is done and dusted but the rugby league news keeps rolling.

The third edition of the Pacific Championships gets underway this weekend with one game apiece from the Pacific Cup (NZ v Samoa) and Pacific Bowl (Fiji v Cook Islands).