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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Thousand Oaks, Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo join list of cities in state with median home prices hitting a million dollars.
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Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo Counties all show unemployment drops, while the state percentage remains unchanged.
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Outside of the box effort by Santa Barbara-based international relief agency to fight climate changeShelterBox ramps up efforts to provide aid in environmentally friendly, sustainable ways.
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Also, the County and the City of Santa Barbara learn they will be getting nearly $8 million dollars in additional state funding to battle the crisis.
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Company pays $90 million for busy complex which features a Home Depot, a sporting goods store, and even an In-N-Out burger off of Highway 101.
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First of more than 80 girders for crossing placed over Highway 101 in Agoura Hills. Work causing partial freeway closures during the overnight hours.
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70-year-old man has been in a hospital since the April 11th incident.
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No word on whether foul play was involved.
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"Greetings From Summerland" focuses on community's forgotten legacy of hundreds of orphaned oil wells. Screening set for this weekend.
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Santa Maria residents can get free kits at the Saturday event.