IT’S that time of year again — and celebrities, companies and even local councils around Australia are having a lend of us with their April Fool’s Day jokes.

An operation targeting alleged domestic violence offenders has nabbed three men and a woman on outstanding warrants.

MISSING 22-year-old Queenslander Samuel Thompson is believed to have met with foul play and police have said are looking into connections with “unsavoury types”.

One of Australia’s major banks has announced a huge change to how thousands of people do their banking – and it’s coming soon.

RESEARCHERS have sounded alarm bells over water quality in the Blue Mountains, claiming the world-heritage listed site is suffering some of the worst environmental pollution in the world.

The fast-food giant is giving away free food to customers who can complete a challenge involving one of its all-time favourite menu items.

A jury has heard how police linked a former Jetstar pilot to the disappearance of two elderly campers in one of Victoria’s most remote locations — and what he says happened.

PHILOSOPHER and ethicist Peter Singer says “we need to move on” from Sunday penalty rates, but believes people should be compensated somehow for the loss of wages.

A LEADING civil rights organisation has called on Amazon Australia to pull “anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial books” from its site.

LIONEL Patea has been sentenced to life in prison for the brutal killing of his ex-girlfriend Tara Brown on a suburban Gold Coast street.

Tony Abbott has delivered a manifesto he will never get to implement as Liberal leader.

THEY say laws are like sausages — it’s best not to see them being made.

MANY forget the NBN is not just a broadband internet service but will also be the only way we can make home phone calls.

SHANNON Noll has been excused from a scheduled court appearance over a scuffle with security guards outside an Adelaide strip club.

A man is suspected of setting himself alight outside a fast food venue on Christmas morning after singed underwear and clothing were found at the scene.

Qantas is investigating a mechanical issue that forced a flight to be diverted mid-air while over Antarctica on Christmas Day.

Samantha Murphy’s disappearance quickly became one of Australia’s high-profile missing persons cases – but the progress of the case has the nation frustrated.

MALCOLM Turnbull has rejected Tony Abbott’s claims the Coalition is “drifting to defeat”, after it emerged that the ousted prime minister hasn’t given up on the Liberal leadership.

A tropical downpour drenches the stage, and highly skilled performers in Cirque du Soleil’s “love letter to Mexico”, Luzia. Go behind the scenes to see how they pull it off.

A WOMAN who works at Spotlight in Campbelltown and stands to lose $80 a week out of her $600 pay, had some powerful words for the Prime Minister about the loss of her penalty rates.