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Scaled-back plans to honor the victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre are only now getting off the ground following an effort to build a multimillion-dollar memorial and museum by a private foundation that disbanded last year.

Survivors and the families of victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre had hoped by now to have a permanent memorial in place for Wednesday's eighth anniversary.

Survivors and relatives of the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre in Florida had hoped by now to have a permanent memorial place at the site. But scaled-back plans for a memorial are only just getting off the ground.

Just days before the Pulse Nightclub shooting anniversary, the city of Orlando announced the inception of the Pulse Memorial Advisory Committee.

The city will form an advisory board including survivors and victims' families to guide the memorial's design. Past efforts have capsized amid infighting.

Two commissioners on the Iowa City Ad Hoc Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or TRC, resigned within two months, citing numerous concerns. The commissioners, Sikowis Nobiss and Marie Krebs, are the only commissioners on the TRC who identify as a part of the Indigenous community. While Krebs cited time constraints due to the unpaid role, Nobiss’...

The City of Orlando has hired a third party to collect input from PULSE shooting survivors and victims’ families on what they envision for the PULSE Memorial.

Hoping to build consensus around the long-disputed Pulse memorial effort, Orlando has decided its best first move is to step aside. Mayor Buddy Dyer announced Tuesday that the city has hired a professional facilitator to engage the community in a memorial design. The move is the first tangible step Orlando has taken since buying the former Pulse nightclub, site of a 2016 mass shooting, late ...

Larry Schooler, who has been a part of other mass shooting memorial efforts, will now take over this process.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer provided an update Tuesday morning on the city's Pulse Memorial project.