What to know about Anchorage's whooping cough outbreak

And: Judge rules that incarcerated U.S. House candidate can remain on Alaska ballot ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Email not displaying correctly? [View the web version]( Today's sponsor: [Today's sponsor: Matson]( Good afternoon. It’s Wednesday, Sept. 11. In today's newsletter: - In recent days, the Anchorage School District has confirmed cases of pertussis, a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable respiratory illness, in at least six schools. [Here's what to know]( about the outbreak. - An Anchorage Superior Court judge [denied a request]( by the Alaska Democratic Party to have the name of a jailed non-resident removed from Alaska’s U.S. House ballot. - The Anchorage Assembly voted to require short-term rental platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo[to provide the city with data]( on the growing vacation rental market in Anchorage. When biologists in Massachusetts placed tracking tags on porbeagle sharks, they hoped to learn more about their habitats. What they got instead was a murder mystery. The victim: a shark nicknamed Penelope. And the murderer, to the scientists' surprise, might have been another type of shark — even though porbeagles don’t have any known predators. Read more about this marine mystery [here.]( Anchorage weather It's cloudy and rainy again today, with a high near 58 degrees. Rain will likely continue through Thursday, with the forecast calling for cloudy skies on Friday and a chance of partial sunshine on Saturday. Daytime temperatures will hover in the high 50s and low 60s for the next few days. Here’s what else is making headlines in Alaska today. — Megan Pacer, mpacer@adn.com [Risk factors, vaccines’ role and what else to know as a whooping cough outbreak grows in Anchorage →]( Statewide, pertussis is leading to hospitalizations and even the death of an infant. [A total of 1,204 children in the Anchorage School District were not vaccinated for pertussis as of September 2024, according to district data.]( ADVERTISEMENT [Judge rules that incarcerated U.S. House candidate can remain on Alaska ballot →]( A New Jersey man serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for threatening elected officials is running for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat despite never having resided in the state. The Alaska Democratic Party plans to appeal the decision. [Anchorage will require market data from short-term rental platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo →]( The [ordinance]( calls for the platforms to provide several types of data, including a list of all units rented, the type of units and the total number of operators. [2 Mat-Su candidates removed from ballot over missed disclosure deadline →]( Mat-Su election officials removed two candidates from the borough’s November ballot this week after they failed to file a required state financial disclosure form by an August deadline. (via Mat-Su Sentinel) [U.S. commemorates 9/11 attacks with victims in focus and politics in view →]( The U.S. remembered the lives taken and those reshaped by 9/11, marking an anniversary laced with presidential campaign politics as President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris stood together at ground zero. ADVERTISEMENT More from the ADN [Key takeaways from a debate that featured tense clashes and closed with a Taylor Swift endorsement →]( [U.S. inflation reaches a 3-year low as Federal Reserve prepares to cut interest rates →]( [Trump falsely accuses immigrants in Ohio of abducting and eating pets →]( [Travel: It just got easier to renew your passport online →]( [Declassified memo from U.S. codebreaker sheds light on Ethel Rosenberg’s Cold War spy case →]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Click here to unsubscribe and manage your email subscriptions.]( Anchorage Daily News, 300 W 31st Ave, Anchorage, AK 99503, United States