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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Sewage and water end up in Arroyo Simi Creek in Moorpark. -
Moisture from off of Mexico is expected to mean rain for the Central and South Coasts -
805Undocufund officials say more than 50 people were taken into custody on the Central and South Coasts December 27 and 28. -
Ventura had 6.6" of rain, and Goleta 7.1". Ventura County's Ortrga Hill recorded a whopping 17.7" of rain. -
Rainfall in community tops more than 7" in the last two weeks. Geologists say the risk of landslides and debris flows in the community is high. -
A number of flights were impacted on Christmas Day. -
A federal agency gave approval to Sable Offshore Corporation's controversial efforts to restart a pipeline which ruptured on the Gaviota Coast in 2015. -
Ashlee Buzzard pled not guilty in court to murder charge stemming from the death of her 9-year-old daughter Melodee. -
Some coastal areas have had more than 4" of rain, while some numbers in the region's mountains top 11". -
Rainfall totals range from around 4" on the coast to nearly 10" in the mountains.
