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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The study, from United Way of California, shows more than 150,000 households in the region don't have the income to cover necessities. -
The man was found guilty of more than 60 felony counts, including the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from an elderly Montecito resident. -
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program took place for the first time in a local juvenile justice facility. -
The aircraft crashed in the city's Wood Ranch area. Two homes were damaged, but no one on the ground was hurt. -
Investigators say the woman falsely signed hundreds of forms for people attesting they had been examined by a doctor as part of the immigration process. -
The craft topped 3,800 miles per hour, or more than five times the speed of sound. -
Federal prosecutors say he was part of a ring that used stolen passwords to access home video cameras and make false 911 calls. -
Two homes were damaged, but no one on the ground was hurt in the Saturday afternoon crash. -
The plane clipped two Simi Valley homes, but no one on the ground was hurt. -
Bacterial contamination was first reported Wednesday night in the water supply for parts of San Luis Obispo County.
