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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Oxnard's Matthew Urango, better known as musical artist Cola Boyy, was 34 years old.
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Proposal calls for adding 14 acres of capacity to the existing 118 Tajigas Landfill facility.
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No one hurt in Monday morning slide.
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Efforts to restore natural habitat in part of Santa Barbara County park being showcased this weekendNon-native plants removed, and native species planted in one acre test site at Santa Barbara's Elings Park.
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Dan Winters has shot everything from space missions to celebrities. Now, the camera is turned on him in a National Geographic Channel documentary.
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Officers find a man and a woman dead in a Port Hueneme home.
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Firefighters hold blaze north of Lompoc to around two acres. No structures reported damaged.
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Art Petersen was wounded twice during World War II, but survived to become a successful businessman, and father of four.
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More than a million gallons of sewage was spilled by a pipeline break
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Hope Village in Santa Maria has room for 94 people, with 24/7 staffing and access to support services.