diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 413011b83d..93408a842a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ __pycache__
 game/settings.py
 game/logs/*.log.*
 game/gamesrc/web/static/*
+game/gamesrc/web/media/*
 
 # Installer logs
 pip-log.txt
diff --git a/src/web/templates/prosimii/index.html b/src/web/templates/prosimii/index.html
index 19e69d8238..2c7aa752a4 100644
--- a/src/web/templates/prosimii/index.html
+++ b/src/web/templates/prosimii/index.html
@@ -28,21 +28,6 @@
       <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/evennia">mailing list</a> or to come say hi in the <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=evennia">developer chatroom</a>. If you find bugs, please report them to our <a href="https://github.com/evennia/evennia/issues">Issue tracker</a>.
       </p>
    </div>
-
-   <!-- news app commented out since there are no news in the database originally -->
-
-   <!--div class="oneThird">
-      <h1>Latest News</h1>
-      {% for entry in news_entries %}
-         <a href="/news/show/{{entry.id}}" class="newsHeading">{{entry.topic.name}}: {{entry.title}}</a>
-         <p class="newsDate">By {{entry.author.username}} on {{entry.date_posted|time}}</p>
-         <p class="newsSummary">{{entry.body|truncatewords:20}}</p>
-      {% endfor %}
-
-      <div class="more"><a href="/news/archive">More News &raquo;</a></div>
-
-      <p class="filler"><!-- Filler para to extend left vertical line--></p>
-   </div-->
 </div>
 
 <div class="rowOfBoxes dividingBorderAbove">
diff --git a/src/web/views.py b/src/web/views.py
index 986ec141d8..078af83045 100644
--- a/src/web/views.py
+++ b/src/web/views.py
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ from django.shortcuts import render
 
 from src.objects.models import ObjectDB
 from src.players.models import PlayerDB
-from src.web.news.models import NewsEntry
 
 _BASE_CHAR_TYPECLASS = settings.BASE_CHARACTER_TYPECLASS
 
@@ -26,8 +25,6 @@ def page_index(request):
     fpage_player_limit = 4
     fpage_news_entries = 2
 
-    # A QuerySet of recent news entries.
-    news_entries = NewsEntry.objects.all().order_by('-date_posted')[:fpage_news_entries]
     # A QuerySet of the most recently connected players.
     recent_users = PlayerDB.objects.get_recently_connected_players()[:fpage_player_limit]
     nplyrs_conn_recent = len(recent_users) or "none"
@@ -43,7 +40,6 @@ def page_index(request):
 
     pagevars = {
         "page_title": "Front Page",
-        "news_entries": news_entries,
         "players_connected_recent": recent_users,
         "num_players_connected": nsess or "noone",
         "num_players_registered": nplyrs or "no",