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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Rainfall totals range from around 4" on the coast to nearly 10" in the mountains. -
Melodee Buzzard's body was found in a remote area of Utah. Detectives say she was a murder victim. They've arrested the girl's mother for the killing. -
The legislation calls for wilderness designations for parts of the Los Padres National Forest, and the Carrizzo Plain National Monument. -
Storm set the stage for potential street flooding, debris flows in wildfire burn zones. -
We hear from Covered California Executive Director Jessica Altman about the impacts of at least the temporary end of federal tax credits. -
The legislation expands aid for firefighters who have work-related cancers. -
Meteorologists say the Tri-Counties could have 2-4" of rain in coastal and inland areas, with up to 6" in the mountains. -
The incident happened near Camarillo on Thursday afternoon. -
Federal agency has taken over the regulation of a controversial oil pipeline in Santa Barbara CountyIt's the latest twist in efforts by Sable Offshore Corporation to restart the oil pipeline, which ruptured on the Gaviota Coast in 2015. -
Santa Barbara County Supervisors rejected an ownership transfer of oil facilities to Sable Offshore Corporation, a decision that affects their operating permits.
