The Orlando Police Department has closed its investigation into the former owners of the Pulse nightclub without filing any charges.

As the city of Orlando moves forward with efforts to create a permanent memorial for victims of the Pulse shooting in 2016, survivors and family members of the victims have long waited for a permanent memorial.

In the early morning of June 12, 2016, a gunman stormed the Pulse Nightclub, killing 49 people, physically injuring 53 others and psychologically wounding countless others. Since then, the community, former nightclub owner Barbara Poma, the City of Orlando, Orange County and the now-dissolved OnePulse Foundation have all grappled with how to remember those lost and honor the survivors.

The Orlando mayor penned a letter sent to families of Pulse victims and survivors to ask for their input on a permanent memorial the city is planning.

The foundation created to build a memorial to honor the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting was insolvent and unable to pay its creditors before dissolving.

The board of directors for the onePulse Foundation, whose mission was to build a memorial and museum honoring the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting, voted late Tuesday to dissolve the organization.

Seven-and-a-half years after a gunman claimed the lives of 49 people inside the Pulse Nightclub, the City of Orlando pick up the work to create a permanent memorial for grieving families and the community.

onePulse Foundation Executive Director Deborah Bowie has resigned from the organization, according to officials with the City of Orlando.

The City of Orlando are expected to vote on a deal to purchase Pulse nightclub.

The Orlando City Council will buy the Pulse nightclub property with plans to build a memorial to the victims of the 2016 shooting.

The Pulse Nightclub property, the site of one of the country’s worst mass shootings, has been sold to the city of Orlando, News 6 has confirmed.

Pulse Nightclub owner Barbara Poma said she has started paying the vendors at the nightclub site after her split from the onePulse Foundation.

More than seven years after a mass shooting that changed Central Florida, the community is still waiting for a permanent memorial to remember the 49 people who were killed at the Pulse Nightclub.

Changes could be coming to the site of the Pulse Nightclub interim memorial next week as the onePulse Foundation plans to stop paying for daily operations.

The onePulse Foundation mapped out a new path forward in a letter sent to families of survivors and victims on Monday, but Pulse Nightclub owner Barbara Poma took issue with part of what was written.

The onePulse foundation was created following the Pulse Nightclub shooting to provide resources for the community and establish a memorial site to honor the victims. More than seven years later, that memorial has yet to be built.

Hundreds of people turned out to the site of Pulse Nightclub on Monday to mark seven years since a gunman took 49 lives and physically wounded 53 others.

For the past 6 years, the onePULSE Foundation has hosted an annual race to honor those who died in the Pulse nightclub tragedy.

Mothers of Pulse nightclub victims and survivors of the June 2016 mass shooting gathered for a news conference Sunday afternoon in Orlando, criticizing Barbara Poma and one Pulse foundation’s handling of the property.

The onePULSE Foundation announced the National Pulse Memorial will be built on a different site after it was unable to reach an agreement with founder Barbara Poma and associates for the donation of the nightclub property.

The founder of the organization established after the 2016 Pulse nightclub tragedy to create a memorial to the victims has stepped down.

Sunday at noon, amid days of events in observance of the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016, each of the 49 victims killed in the attack were recognized with the somber tolling of a bell at the First United Methodist Church of Orlando.

Families, survivors and first responders will gather to honor the 49 victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting at the Six-Year Pulse Remembrance Ceremony on Sunday.

As the six-year anniversary of the Pulse shooting approaches, Pulse nightclub owner Barbara Poma held a vigil for the Texas shooting victim on Thursday evening.

For the first time since the pandemic began, runners came together to remember the lives lost during the Pulse nightclub tragedy and support the onePULSE Foundation.

ORLANDO, Fla. Hundreds logged on Friday night to pay their respects to the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, which happened exactly four years ago. The ceremony included comments from Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings, Broadway star and Orlando native Norm Lewis and Pulse nightclub owner Barbara Poma. The online ceremony included family members who lost loved ones reading the names of the 49 lives lost. An hour later, St. Lukes Methodist Church also held an online vigil for the Pulse nightclub victims. At Pulse, many who survived the shooting gathered to comfort each other.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Four years ago Friday, a gunman opened fire at Pulse nightclub in Orlando’s SoDo neighborhood, killing 49 people and injuring dozens of others. [READ: 49 bell tolls ring throughout Orlando, 4 years after Pulse nightclub attack | Rainbow emerges during Pulse remembrance ceremony]In 2018, the wounds were reopened when the gunman’s widow stood trial for her alleged role in the terror attack. While June 12, known as Orlando United Day, is usually marked somber gatherings with candles and moments of silence, this year will be different. Poma said even though the community can't gather for the remembrance ceremony, we still need to remember and honor our angels. Regardless of how it is honored, June 12 will be a day Orlandoans will never forget.

ORLANDO, Fla. This year, the Pulse interim will be closed to the general public on June 12 and instead a remembrance ceremony to honor those killed in the 2016 mass shooting will be held online. In the past, thousands have gathered at the site of the tragedy on June 12 to mark another year since 49 lives were claimed at the gay nightclub. Now, due to coronavirus social distancing guidelines, the annual ceremony will be pre-recorded and placed on the onePulse Foundation Facebook page and YouTube channel at 7 p.m. Friday. Although the interim memorial will be closed to the public starting at 10 p.m. Thursday until Saturday morning, it will be open to first responders, survivors and family members of the victims. We ask the community to join together again, in a different way this year, as a symbol of strength and solidarity in the face of tragedy, forever proving: We will not let hate win.Those who participate in the virtual ceremony are asked to share their thoughts and reflections using #WeWillNotLetHateWin on social media.

ORLANDO, Fla. – The onePULSE Foundation is launching an international competition for the design of the Pulse Memorial and Museum set to open at the site of the Pulse nightclub shooting, where 49 people were killed in 2016. Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016. The open competition will be held in two stages. “It's a tragic event that touched everyone, you know, the world watched and the world mourned, and it makes completely total sense to run a worldwide, international design competition,” Sirefman said. The Pulse Memorial and Museum will be free and open to the public 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Pulse owner Barbara Poma appeared in federal court Tuesday as jury selection continued in the trial of the widow of the gunman who killed 49 people at the Orlando nightclub in June 2016. Noor Salman, 31, is charged with aiding and abetting and obstruction of justice after the shooting. On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen opened fire inside Pulse on Latin night, killing 49 and injuring more than 50 others. Poma attended the first day of jury selection but had not returned until Tuesday, Day 4 of jury selection. The trial is being held at the Middle District of Florida Courthouse, about 2 miles from Pulse.