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 driver struck a pedestrian before hitting the front of a restaurant. The pedestrian, a 79-year-old Agoura Hills woman, died at the scene. -
The new report says the county should develop a comprehensive Arundo removal program. -
Decades-old dream of turning a former Oxnard school campus into a park is finally becoming a realityWork is underway to transform more than two dozen acres of the former Oxnard High School campus site into Campus Park. -
Detectives say the 14-year-old boys attacked the man and left the scene, but then returned multiple times to continue the assaults. -
Pilot walks away from crash landing near Santa Paula with minor injuries -
Hundreds of people turned out to learn more about wildfire preparation. They also got a close-up look at fire trucks and helicopters. -
CHP investigators say a driver was headed northbound on the southbound 101 early Friday morning, causing the crash. -
Ventura County Health Care Agency officials say the scam involves people calling patients and demanding immediate payment for medical services. -
Instructors can trigger flames and smoke in custom concrete buildings via remote control to give firefighters experience battling different blazes. -
SLO County Airport has opened up a remote, undeveloped area of its facility to a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo apiary.
