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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Circumstances behind the confrontation, which led to the shooting, are still being investigated. -
The President's social media post used Kenny Loggins' song Danger Zone in a video attacking 'No Kings' demonstrations -
One proposal calls for banning new development, while a second calls for a phaseout of existing operations. -
He was found clinging to post below Ellwood Pier and told rescuers that he was chased into the ocean by a homeless man. -
John Nunes becomes president of California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. -
Melodee Buzzard, 9, was last seen in August. -
Cowboys: History & Hollywood runs October 18-April 19 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. -
Forever Found is celebrating 15 years of providing recovery support for children and young adults forced into sex work. -
It comes in the wake of the destructive Thomas Fire in 2017. Firefighters in Ventura experienced low water pressure while attempting to fight the fire. -
Federal prosecutors filed a mail fraud charge against the chief financial officer of the developer involved with the Thousand Oaks project.
