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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Investigators say they are looking at it as a possible homicide. -
52 campuses now participate in the statewide California College Corps program. -
Walter Capps earned national recognition for his Vietnam War classes. He later won a seat in Congress, but died months after taking office. -
Ventura County Sheriff's deputies were called to the scene by family members who couldn't reach the couple.
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Some of the heaviest rainfall could be in Santa Barbara County. -
The two-time Academy Award nominee will receive the festival's Malton Modern Master Award on February 6. -
The court system will remain open, with limited proceedings and services available. -
Lacey Jones is speaking out during Breast Cancer Awareness Month to promote a mammogram screening event in Ventura County. -
KCLU provided key on-scene live coverage of the critical first two days of the fire. -
The KCLU News Team provided live, on-scene coverage during the critical first three days of the brush fire, and as well as in-studio, online, and social media updates
