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Stories by Darren MacDonald
- Couple from Iroquois Falls wins $1M in Lotto 6/49 draw
- Officials in Timmins issue plea for people to stay at home as district's COVID cases soar
- Timmins police charge two Toronto-area residents with breaking emergency COVID restrictions
- Date set to hear argument against LU's termination of federated university agreement
- Sudbury woman charged with making harassing phone calls to Sault police
- One death, another 12 new COVID-19 cases reported in Timmins area Thursday
- Police in Kirkland Lake make two major busts, seize illegal drugs worth $300K
- Timmins teen charged with drug possession, trafficking
- Sudbury man, 25, charged in connection with fire that killed three people
- COVID cases still surging in Timmins area; 18 new cases reported Wednesday
- Police forces in northeastern Ontario step up enforcement of emergency COVID orders
- Seven people in the Sault face drug, weapons charges, as well as fines for breaking COVID restrictions
- Timmins police charge five people from Brantford for violating emergency COVID restrictions
- Gore Bay farmer celebrates $100K lottery win
- Sault police receive multiple reports of people having their bank accounts hacked
- Transport driver near Sudbury was impaired, had open liquor in the truck, police say
- Bad weather closes Hwy. 11 from Hearst to Longlac
- Steve Paikin resigns as Laurentian University chancellor
- Operating room at Timmins hospital receives $250K boost from Lake Shore Gold
- Laurentian signs deal with the University of Sudbury to take over six Indigenous studies courses
Darren MacDonald
ContactDarren MacDonald joins CTV News Northern Ontario as a digital content producer, continuing his journalism career in Greater Sudbury that spans more than two decades.
MacDonald began as a city hall reporter, covering the amalgamation of communities that created the City of Greater Sudbury. Later, he was an editor for The Sudbury Star, first in business and entertainment, and was appointed News Editor in 2010.
He returned to writing in 2012, heading back to city hall, covering politics until he joined CTV News Northern Ontario April 2020.
He has a degree in English, with a minor in political science, from Dalhousie University, and a graduate degree in journalism from the University of King’s College in Halifax.