JOHN LOCHER

Nicole Flender, left, and Timothée Chalamet arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Oscars photos: See reunions, props and more candid moments from the red carpet

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stars had fun on their way into the Oscars.

The fashion moments were plenty and wide-ranging: Timothée Chalamet, nominated for best actor, walked in a butter yellow suit, holding the hand of his mother, Nicole Flender, as they approached the Dolby Theatre. Andrew Garfield opted for a chocolate brown suit. Michelle Yeoh’s royal blue gown casca

Members of the Navajo Scouts firefighter crew kick up dust as they clear debris from a landslide across a road on a hillside as they battle the Eaton Fire, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Navajo Nation firefighters battle wildfires in Los Angeles

A quick-strike crew of Native American firefighters and journeymen utility workers from the Navajo Nation are helping Los Angeles residents cut through landslides, mangled trees and charred debris of the Eaton Fire that rampaged though the Los Angeles area.

The Palisades Fire ravages a neighborhood amid high winds in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

Landscapes turned into hellscapes, shock and the ongoing fight against wildfires in Los Angeles

While firefighters made gains on the fires, the battle was far from over. From both the air and the ground, firefighters attacked the flames. Hazardous smoke, from both active burning and smoldering homes, filled the skies.

Ganebik Johnson, 13, second from right, teaches spearfishing on Pokegama Lake during a youth spearfishing event Saturday, April 20, 2024, in Lac Du Flambeau, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

More Indigenous youth are learning to spearfish, a connection to ancestors and the land

Spearfishing connects many Indigenous people in the northern Great Lakes region to their ancestors and to a sense of shared responsibility for the land, which is why parents, family members, local leaders and community organizations are so invested in teaching the next generation.

As climate change alters lakes, tribes and conservationists fight for the future of spearfishing

Members of the Ojibwe and other tribes in the northern Great Lakes region have spearfished walleye for centuries, where the practice is a right enshrined in 19th century treaties, a historic part of their culture and an important part of food sovereignty.

Isaac Cruz, of Mexico, hits Rolando Romero in a super lightweight title bout Saturday, March 30, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

An AP photographer works quickly to land a shot from ringside in Las Vegas

John Locher has been photographing boxing for more than two decades. He’s been ringside for a rollcall of the best fighters this century: Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Wladimir Klitschko, Manny Pacquiao, Bernard Hopkins and Shane Mosley are among the boxers he’s covered.

A paddle boarder tows an inflatable unicorn on a temporary lake in Death Valley on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2024, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. A series of storms have brought more than double the parks annual rainfall in the past six months. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

Kayakers paddle in Death Valley after rains replenish lake in one of Earth’s driest spots

Kayakers have been paddling in one of the driest places on Earth after a series of storms battered California’s Death Valley and replenished Lake Manly.

Nikyle Begay moves a sheep in preparation for shearing Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, on the Navajo Nation in Ganado, Ariz. When it's time for shearing, Begay ties the hooves of the sheep into place and cut the wool by hand with a special pair of scissors. (AP Photo/John Locher)

‘My heart was always just with the sheep.’ One Navajo’s push to keep tradition vibrant

Growing up in Ganado, a small town in Navajo Nation in eastern Arizona, Nikyle Begay always wanted to visit their grandmother’s sheep.

Jay Begay shears a sheep by hand Monday, April 10, 2023, in the community of Rocky Ridge, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation. Climate change, permitting issues and diminishing interest among younger generations are leading to a singular reality: Navajo raising fewer sheep. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Navajo sheep herding at risk from climate change. Some young people push to maintain the tradition

Raising sheep is a way of life for many people in Navajo Nation, but a host of factors threaten that livelihood.

People walk along a trail as the sun sets, Sunday, July 16, 2023, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. Death Valley's brutal temperatures come amid a blistering stretch of hot weather that has put roughly one-third of Americans under some type of heat advisory, watch or warning. (AP Photo/John Locher)

California’s Death Valley sizzles as brutal heat wave continues

Death Valley is putting a sizzling exclamation point on a record warm summer across the globe as it flirts with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded.

AP PHOTOS: Elvis has never left the building in Las Vegas

Emerging solar plants scorch birds in mid-air

The investigators want the halt until the full extent of the deaths can be assessed. Estimates per year now range from a low of about a thousand by BrightSource to 28,000 by an expert for the Center for Biological Diversity environmental group.