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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Incident involved attempted murder suspect hospitalized for stab wounds. -
The Tunnel to Tower Foundation's Steel Across America Tour started and will end at Ground Zero in New York. Simi Valley is one of its 40 stops. -
The Cal Poly Training Ship Golden Bear is being retired after a 12,500-mile cruise across the Pacific. It will be replaced by a newer ship, the Golden State, in 2027. -
The Hitching Post II in Buellton is famous for its barbecue style and branded wine, but achieved even more fame when it was featured in the 2004 movie 'Sideways.' -
The 20-year-old was from Santa Maria. -
The Chumash Heritage Garden is a two acre addition to the San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden. -
Loay Alnaji will serve one year in the Ventura County Jail, plus two years of felony probation. -
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.
