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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Peter Bie served two tours in Vietnam, seeing combat on the ground and in the air. -
New numbers show Kristen Sneddon pulling ahead of fellow Santa Barbara City Council member Eric Friedman, who held the early lead in the race. -
Santa Barbara County Public Health officials say there are no indications of any other potential causes, like tainted water. -
College students, amateur radio operators on Central Coast team up to create emergency radio networkIts network of mountaintop towers can relay internet and voice communications during a major outage, such as one caused by an earthquake. -
The Greater Contribution was started 20 years ago by a group of Thousand Oaks businesswomen who decided they wanted to do something to help others. -
Man's body discovered near Veterans Memorial in Guadalupe. -
The burns are planned to reduce the brush fire danger in Tepusquet Canyon, east of Santa Maria. -
Police investigating why dozens of people needed medical treatment after Santa Barbara Half-MarathonDepartment officials say they are "actively investigating" the reports. -
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley hosts Diana: Love Life Legacy - A Life of Giving from November 7 through May 31, 2027. -
State DAs association says the unilateral decision disregards hundreds of jury verdicts and denies a voice to families of victims.
