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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Staff and program cuts are a possibility unless funding is restored or added from other sources.
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About 100 cameras deployed in Goleta for transportation census project.
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SpaceX rocket has payload of 20 communications satellites.
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Ian Shive is an acclaimed nature photographer and the host of series and documentaries for the Discovery Channel. He'll speak in Santa Barbara Thursday.
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DNA evidence used to identify suspect. He died in 1999.
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Pathways to Invention looks at outside of the box innovators trying to tackle some of the problems and issues the world is facing.
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Officers say driver who refused to stop hit CHP unit in Ventura, injuring officer.
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Property owners would have to agree that the pipeline's owner could repair, and reopen the pipeline.
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Prosecutors say man broke into Ariana Grande's Santa Barbara County home, disabling the security system. He was arrested in the home's crawl space.
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Busted! Online food retailer agrees to Santa Barbara County court judgement over the way it operatesSanta Barbara County prosecutors say Thrive Market didn't clearly disclose the details of its membership program, and at times also misrepresented prices.