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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More than a dozen demonstrations take place from Thousand Oaks to San Luis Obispo Saturday. -
The Department of Energy claims the state lawsuit is about politics. -
Detectives issue warning about what's know as 'bank jugging' after five incidents since first of year. -
The family's 3-year-old was not deported because the preschooler was born in the U.S. Relatives are now caring for the child. -
Researchers say hundreds of thousands of Americans are trying to cope with long COVID, which can have a myriad of health impacts. -
The weapon was unloaded. Investigators said there is no indication that the student who brought the weapon to campus intended to harm anyone. -
The demonstrations are part of the nationwide 'No Kings' events set for this Saturday. -
Sable Offshore Corporation has a deal to sell 20,000 barrels of oil a day to Chevron. The firm announced it will be moving 50,000 barrels a day by April 1. -
Former Santa Maria Airport official David Baskett was sentenced to one year's probation. -
California's Attorney General blasts the action by the Trump Administration to restart the pipeline, which ruptured in 2015, calling it 'executive overreach'
