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 100 Golden Mikes, 30+ regional Edward R. Murrow awards, two 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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The plan could increase daily oil production from the Platform Gilda to 4,000 barrels a day, up from 1,100. -
More than a dozen routes will be affected starting Monday, August 17. -
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County engineered the deal to buy the 2.48 acres of land, now known as the Rincon Gateway Bluffs. -
'Stop the Bleed' teaches basic techniques to help people with injuries until first responders can take over treatment. -
Health officials are concerned because the virus is highly contagious. -
Mona Miyasato helped the county deal with everything from the Thomas Fire and Montecito debris flow to the impacts of federal and state budget cuts. -
Detectives say William Ly of Simi Valley stole the money from the victim in a series of more than 80 transactions. -
She had been in intensive care at the Ojai Raptor Center for three weeks. -
Blaze is in the mountains southeast of Lake Piru. -
The man was involved in an argument with his neighbor just before his death.
