Is it possible to remove the word "date" from archives?

Question

I can't figure out how to remove the word "date from the permalink for yearly archives. For example:

[http://localhost/wordpress/news/date/2012]

On single news pages the permalink looks like this:

[http://localhost/wordpress/news/2012/news-article/]

I've created a custom post type called "News". The slug for this post_type is obviously "news". I've set 'archive' to true and 'with_front' to false.

I want a clean News Archive which can be broken down by years. I tried a different solution, but it posed problems. I set the 'archive' to false and created a News page with a custom template, for current News Articles. I then created child pages for each year's News Articles, but Wordpress added -2 to the permalink.. For example:

2012 = news/2012-2

I just want my permalinks to be like this:

news

news/2012

news/2012/news-item

I've tried a few plugins but nothing seems to work. Any Ideas?

Answer 1

go to Settings -> Permalinks tab

Try this:

/%category%/%year%/%postname%/

Answer 2

WordPress Answers showed me a related question that helped.

custom post types, wp_get_archives and add_rewrite_rule

I had to modify the code:

add_action('init', 'wpse50530_journal_archive_rewrite');
function wpse50530_journal_archive_rewrite(){
    add_rewrite_rule('^news/([0-9]{4})/?','index.php?post_type=news&year=$matches[1]','top');
}