The Saskatoon Blades blasted the Regina Pats 8-1 in WHL play on Saturday night at Credit Union Centre.

With the score 1-1, Lukas Sutter gave the Blades a lead they wouldn't give up by scoring at the 8:28 mark of the first period.

Josh Nicholls had a three point night for Saskatoon, while Brett Stovin and Darren Dietz scored two goals each.

The annual convention of Saskatchewan's urban municipalities is underway in Regina.

Over 1,000 representatives from cities and municipalities all over Saskatchewan are in the Queen city for the SUMA convention.

SUMA CEO Laurent Mougeout thinks there will be a lot of talk around two topics.

Environment Canada has issued a freezing rain warning for Saskatoon, Prince Albert, North Battleford and Meadow Lake and areas around those centres for Sunday.

The freezing rain is expected to start later Sunday morning. It should end overnight when it could move northeast from the west central part of the province.

Edited by News Talk Radio's Karen Brownlee.

Mark McMorris won double gold at the X Games making him only the second snowboarder to do so since Shaun White in 2009.

Fans took to Twitter to offer their congratulations. You can congratulate him also on our Facebook page for CJME.

Travel is not recommended around Estevan by Highway Hotline.

Ice and swirling snow is making Highway 18 from the junction at Highway 47 all the way to the junction with Highway 35 unsafe to travel.

Highways around Swift Current are also covered in ice.

There are icy and slippery sections on a number of other highways in the province, except for around Saskatoon and Yorkton where conditions are good.

Edited by News Talk Radio's Karen Brownlee.

Shellbrook native Stefanie Lawton and her Saskatoon rink will have to take the long road to the final at the women's provincial tankard in Humboldt.

Lawton's four some dropped a 7-6 decision Saturday night to Regina's Michelle Englot in the A1 vs B1 page playoff game of the SaskPower Provincial Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

It was marquee matchup of the tournament so far. Englot finished atop the B pool with a 5-0 record, while Lawton went 4-1 to win the A pool.

Saskatchewan snowboarder Mark McMorris took another gold at the X Games on Saturday, the first to do so at the event since Shaun White in 2009.

McMorris had the winning run in the men’s slopestyle event on Saturday. He also won gold in the Snowboard Big Air event.

It was a swing and a miss for the Occupy movement planning to protest at the Monsanto Research Centre northeast of Saskatoon on Saturday night.

Movement members contacted the media last week about the planned passive confrontation, which was supposed to occur at 5 p.m. -- except it didn't.

Activist and key Occupy Saskatoon organizer and owner of alternative bookstore Turning the Tide Peter Garden explained what happened.

It was a historic event for the Metis and francophone people of Saskatchewan on Saturday, with the signing of a Solidarity Pact between the two groups at the Park Town Hotel in Saskatoon.

President Robert Doucette of the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan and President Paul Heppelle of the Assemblee communautaire fransaskoise met to sign the document, the first of its kind between these two communities in Saskatchewan.