Lance Orozco
News DirectorLance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, developing the station's local news coverage as it transitioned to a news/talk format.
He has provided award-winning local coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral. He even did a story about his own kidney cancer surgery, taking listeners along as the operation was being performed.
Lance has won more than 200 journalism awards for KCLU, including more than 90 Golden Mikes, 20-plus regional Edward R. Murrow awards, a National Edward R. Murrow Award (an honor which came to David Letterman’s attention on “The Late Show”), and four National Society Of Professional Journalists awards. He has been AP's small market reporter of the year for the western U.S. 13 times.
Lance is a familiar face in the region, having worked nearly two decades as a television reporter and weathercaster for ABC, NBC, and CBS television stations in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. His adventures included an unexpected guest appearance on "Late Night With David Letterman."
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Magnitude 4.1 quake was centered in Riverside County, but much of Southern California felt it.
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Part of State Highway 192 will be shut down for more than a week.
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CHP investigators say he was under the influence of drugs at the time.
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Investigators say multi-million dollar scheme involved artifically pumping up stock price, and then selling it.
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They're common in California. But, some are non-native birds. Santa Barbara event looks at the issueSome were brought to the state intentionally as game birds. But, most species started off as exotic pets from around the world, which escaped or were released.
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Part of the Ventura River Trail will be repaved. The work also includes the addition of solar lighting and new landscaping.
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Starting Wednesday night, northbound Highway 101 will be closed in the Liberty Canyon area to allow giant support girders to be placed across the highway.
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The Kingsmen defeat Vassar three straight to win the NCAA-DIII title.
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There's still time to visit, but the Murphy Auto Museum will shut its doors permanently this summer.
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Ranch in eastern San Luis Obispo County is roughly the size of the City of San Francisco.