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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Kristian Fonseca was sentenced for the 2019 and 2020 attacks in Santa Paula. -
Gary Kiehl of Arroyo Grande was last seen on Monday in the Avila Beach area. -
The company says 78 Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling workers will be reassigned to other facilities. -
The 80-unit complex is being built on land owned by Ventura County in Camarillo. Plans call for it to open in late 2027. -
The suspects filled mailboxes with cardboard, then returned them to steal mail deposited in the full boxes. -
A coalition of groups is co-sponsoring the event, which is a protest against the restart of the pipeline that ruptured and against the threat of new oil drilling. -
The Cal Poly San Luis Obispo team examined more than 15,000 structures and 52,000 tree canopies in the 2025 Eaton and Palisades wildfires. -
Chevron and Aera Energy sought to close Hall Canyon Road, which provides public access to the newly opened 1,600-acre Ventura Hills Nature Preserve. -
Westmont College and the Santa Barbara Unified School District will use a $2.4 million state grant to help aspiring teachers. -
San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson vows the search will continue.
