Bathurst, Australia News

Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce says it is unfair for some councils to have to pay the carbon tax, while others do not.

Harness Racing New South Wales has received a report from the Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory that diclofenac has been detected in the post race urine sample taken from Perfezione after she raced and won Race 5 The American Ideal On NZ 3yo Sires List Bathurst Gold Tiara Heat Four at Bathurst on 22 March 2012.

MURDER MYSTERY: NSW detectives are turning their attention to WA in the hunt for the 1997 killer of teenager Jessica Small, 15.

The Fair Trading Commissioner, Rod Stowe, says callers have been targeting the city claiming to be from a government agency asking people to transfer funds so that money owed to them can be released.

The diocese, which covers half of New South Wales, has been under investigation by the Catholic Church for more than a year after being forced to operate without a Bishop and minus three priests.