A woman aged in her 60s died at the scene.

Emergency services were called to the Great Western Highway, near Evans Lookout Road, about 4pm following a head-on collision between a Kia 4WD and a Toyota Camry.

Police had been been told the Camry struck another vehicle prior to colliding with the Kia.

The driver of the Camry, a woman aged in her 60s, died at the scene.

Two occupants in the Kia, a man and woman, were taken to hospital. The driver of the third vehicle wasn't injured.

IT had been nearly four years since Masters Home Improvement shut its doors in Bathurst and the enormous site had been empty ever since.

But on June 12, the Western Advocate reported that an existing Bathurst business was eager to make the big move into the premises, aiming to open the doors there in less than a month.

A development application (DA) had been lodged with Bathurst Regional Council by Harvey Norman for the change of use, internal alterations and commercial signage at the former Masters site, 3 Pat O'Leary Drive.

According to the Statement of Environmental Effects (SoEE) submitted with the DA, Harvey Norman would occupy part of the building, leaving the remaining area open for another suitable business.

"No construction works are proposed to facilitate the use, rather the existing built form and facilities will be relied upon and temporary measures used to delineate the lease boundary from the remaining floor area within the building," the SoEE read.

Gerry Harvey, the co-founder and executive chairman of Harvey Norman, said the move was all about making a bigger and better store for Bathurst.

BATHURST man Leslie Ovington was doubly surprised when he heard he'd won an $80,000 dream car in a raffle.

For one thing, he hadn't bought the tickets thinking he'd be the one to take out the prize.

And the other reason? "Honestly, I'd forgotten about the draw," he admitted as he took possession of his reward, a fully customised HSV Clubsport.

Mr Ovington bought $100 worth of tickets in the Australian Horizons Foundation's national Art Union 21 raffle and he got the good news last Sunday.

He was contacted personally by Troy Williams, owner of Eye Candy Motorsports, which is a corporate partner for the foundation.

"He [Mr Williams] said 'you've just won a car, mate' and I said 'surely not'," Mr Ovington said.

"I could not believe it."

ALSO MAKING NEWS IN JUNE:

IT'S not every day a store opens in Bathurst that has the distinction of being voted 'best pies in Australia' in a public forum.

But in the case of Luscious Lucy Plump 'mmm' Juicy, the brand new pie shop and cafe at 94 Bentinck Street, the tailor-made pies and sausage rolls are only part of what the store wants to offer to the Bathurst community.

"Lucy isn't just our home, it's everyone's home now," Luscious Lucy owner Cara Oloman said.

"Not only do we have a fantastic range of pies, we want to ensure each customer feels embraced and prepared for the rest of the day."

Luscious Lucy's pies were voted the best in Australia in 2011 by ABC Radio and during their 11-month tenure in Portland last year, sold 70,000 pies in a town of around 2400 people.

MAYOR Bobby Bourke was awarded a salary increase of almost $20,000 after Bathurst Regional Council signed off on its 2020-21 budget last week.

Each councillor also received an extra $4000, in line with the NSW Local Government Remuneration Tribunal's latest fees determination.

The pay rises for Bathurst's mayor and councillors are the result of a reclassification of the council area by the remuneration tribunal.

Bathurst is one of the 24 local government areas across the state to be reclassified as a Regional Centre, rather than Rural Regional, in the tribunal's 2020 determination.

In adopting the 2020-21 budget in June, councillors voted to again accept the maximum fees allowed by the tribunal, which will see the councillors' payments rise from $20,280 a year to $24,320 and the mayor's allowance go from $44,250 to $60,080.