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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Prosecutors say it's the second DUI conviction for the Moorpark man. -
Amtrak will use buses to move passengers between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo from August 1 to 16. -
The SpaceX rocket carried five satellites into orbit. -
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The officer was injured after a car chase ended in a foot pursuit. -
Police say the circumstances surrounding what happened are unclear, but they don't think anyone else was involved. -
A nearly 24-hour-long outage was caused by a fiber optics line accidentally being cut in Santa Barbara County. -
The California Vegetation Burn Severity Online Viewer has data for all wildfires of more than a thousand acres in the Tri-Counties and statewide. -
The woman's body was discovered in the Goleta Slough area Tuesday, after she disappeared July 11. -
People can still call public safety agencies using their direct phone numbers. The communications issues led to cancellation of more than 20 flights at Santa Barbara Airport.
