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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Jacqui Irwin announces plans to run for the 26th District Congressional seat hours after Julia Brownley said she won't seek an eighth term in office. -
Camarillo among communities in the Tri-Counties stepping up education and enforcement efforts to try to cut traffic-related incidents. -
A new state law may require Sable Offshore Corporation to undergo an additional level of review. -
A 77-year-old Santa Paula man was killed in the 2023 crash. -
Democratic Rep. Julia Brownley of Westlake Village was first elected in 2012. She didn't say what led to her decision. -
Michael Reagan was 80 years old. -
The damaged rail will be closed to passenger and freight traffic for an undetermined period. -
Company officials say that with other options available, the centers are not as necessary as they were in the past. -
The trio will share the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Hammond Cinema Vanguard Award. -
The Gaviota Coast was drenched with 5" of rain over the wekend, which caused flooding, mudslides, and rockslides on sections of Highway 101 west of Goleta.
