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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Santa Ana winds easing, but a Red Flag Warning for Ventura and Los Angeles Counties remains in effect until 10 a.m. Friday. Rain expected this weekend. -
No structures were threatened, but the campus was evacuated as a precaution. -
Federal prosecutors say Kya Christian Nelson of Wisconsin was responsible for multiple incidents across the country. -
Blaze has charred 15+ acres on Round Mountain. Final number could be around 30 acres. -
Blaze reported west of campus, in hills off Lewis Road. -
City of LA asked for help because of large number fire of victims. -
It would be a reincarnation of the Santa Barbara News-Press, the community's more than 150 year old newspaper which folded in 2023. -
Wind not expected to be extreme, but could still hit gusts of 50 miles an hour. -
LA County wildfire creates smoke issues in Ventura County: Oxnard, Ventura, Moorpark Colleges closedVentura County's air quality at the "unhealthful" level Wednesday afternoon. -
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo team completed a three year study and just received a million dollar grant for expanded research.
