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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The Ventura Land Trust is receiving $1.2 million for projects to restore native plant species at the Harmon Canyon Preserve. -
Musician Igor Roz and his wife Sofia moved to the United States nearly four decades ago, but they still have relatives in Ukraine. -
The collision happened on Grimes Canyon Road between Moorpark and Fillmore Saturday night. -
David Hoetzlein will be placed in a maximum-security state mental hospital. -
Michael Douglas Branbles was living in Santa Maria at the time of the arrest. -
The plan could increase daily oil production from the Platform Gilda to 4,000 barrels a day, up from 1,100. -
More than a dozen routes will be affected starting Monday, August 17. -
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County engineered the deal to buy the 2.48 acres of land, now known as the Rincon Gateway Bluffs. -
'Stop the Bleed' teaches basic techniques to help people with injuries until first responders can take over treatment. -
Health officials are concerned because the virus is highly contagious.
