diff --git a/Doc/conf.py b/Doc/conf.py
index a156ea2e57a6a5..00ff894a615536 100644
--- a/Doc/conf.py
+++ b/Doc/conf.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
     'changes',
     'glossary_search',
     'lexers',
+    'misc_news',
     'pyspecific',
     'sphinx.ext.coverage',
     'sphinx.ext.doctest',
diff --git a/Doc/make.bat b/Doc/make.bat
index ede793ed3c6d70..99f0d5c44f0098 100644
--- a/Doc/make.bat
+++ b/Doc/make.bat
@@ -127,16 +127,14 @@ goto end
 :build
 if not exist "%BUILDDIR%" mkdir "%BUILDDIR%"
 
-rem PY_MISC_NEWS_DIR is also used by our Sphinx extension in tools/extensions/pyspecific.py
-if not defined PY_MISC_NEWS_DIR set PY_MISC_NEWS_DIR=%BUILDDIR%\%1
-if not exist "%PY_MISC_NEWS_DIR%" mkdir "%PY_MISC_NEWS_DIR%"
+if not exist build mkdir build
 if exist ..\Misc\NEWS (
-    echo.Copying Misc\NEWS to %PY_MISC_NEWS_DIR%\NEWS
-    copy ..\Misc\NEWS "%PY_MISC_NEWS_DIR%\NEWS" > nul
+    echo.Copying existing Misc\NEWS file to Doc\build\NEWS
+    copy ..\Misc\NEWS build\NEWS > nul
 ) else if exist ..\Misc\NEWS.D (
     if defined BLURB (
         echo.Merging Misc/NEWS with %BLURB%
-        %BLURB% merge -f "%PY_MISC_NEWS_DIR%\NEWS"
+        %BLURB% merge -f build\NEWS
     ) else (
         echo.No Misc/NEWS file and Blurb is not available.
         exit /B 1
diff --git a/Doc/tools/extensions/misc_news.py b/Doc/tools/extensions/misc_news.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..a24c440595ee92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Doc/tools/extensions/misc_news.py
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+"""Support for including Misc/NEWS."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+from docutils import nodes
+from sphinx.locale import _ as sphinx_gettext
+from sphinx.util.docutils import SphinxDirective
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from typing import Final
+
+    from docutils.nodes import Node
+    from sphinx.application import Sphinx
+    from sphinx.util.typing import ExtensionMetadata
+
+
+BLURB_HEADER = """\
++++++++++++
+Python News
++++++++++++
+"""
+
+bpo_issue_re: Final[re.Pattern[str]] = re.compile(
+    "(?:issue #|bpo-)([0-9]+)", re.ASCII
+)
+gh_issue_re: Final[re.Pattern[str]] = re.compile(
+    "gh-(?:issue-)?([0-9]+)", re.ASCII | re.IGNORECASE
+)
+whatsnew_re: Final[re.Pattern[str]] = re.compile(
+    r"^what's new in (.*?)\??$", re.ASCII | re.IGNORECASE | re.MULTILINE
+)
+
+
+class MiscNews(SphinxDirective):
+    has_content = False
+    required_arguments = 1
+    optional_arguments = 0
+    final_argument_whitespace = False
+    option_spec = {}
+
+    def run(self) -> list[Node]:
+        # Get content of NEWS file
+        source, _ = self.get_source_info()
+        news_file = Path(source).resolve().parent / self.arguments[0]
+        self.env.note_dependency(news_file)
+        try:
+            news_text = news_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+        except (OSError, UnicodeError):
+            text = sphinx_gettext("The NEWS file is not available.")
+            return [nodes.strong(text, text)]
+
+        # remove first 3 lines as they are the main heading
+        news_text = news_text.removeprefix(BLURB_HEADER)
+
+        news_text = bpo_issue_re.sub(r":issue:`\1`", news_text)
+        # Fallback handling for GitHub issues
+        news_text = gh_issue_re.sub(r":gh:`\1`", news_text)
+        news_text = whatsnew_re.sub(r"\1", news_text)
+
+        self.state_machine.insert_input(news_text.splitlines(), str(news_file))
+        return []
+
+
+def setup(app: Sphinx) -> ExtensionMetadata:
+    app.add_directive("miscnews", MiscNews)
+
+    return {
+        "version": "1.0",
+        "parallel_read_safe": True,
+        "parallel_write_safe": True,
+    }
diff --git a/Doc/tools/extensions/pyspecific.py b/Doc/tools/extensions/pyspecific.py
index 526dc1e593de53..b7e35fb01e2aec 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/extensions/pyspecific.py
+++ b/Doc/tools/extensions/pyspecific.py
@@ -147,46 +147,6 @@ def run(self):
         return PyMethod.run(self)
 
 
-# Support for including Misc/NEWS
-
-issue_re = re.compile('(?:[Ii]ssue #|bpo-)([0-9]+)', re.I)
-gh_issue_re = re.compile('(?:gh-issue-|gh-)([0-9]+)', re.I)
-whatsnew_re = re.compile(r"(?im)^what's new in (.*?)\??$")
-
-
-class MiscNews(SphinxDirective):
-    has_content = False
-    required_arguments = 1
-    optional_arguments = 0
-    final_argument_whitespace = False
-    option_spec = {}
-
-    def run(self):
-        fname = self.arguments[0]
-        source = self.state_machine.input_lines.source(
-            self.lineno - self.state_machine.input_offset - 1)
-        source_dir = getenv('PY_MISC_NEWS_DIR')
-        if not source_dir:
-            source_dir = path.dirname(path.abspath(source))
-        fpath = path.join(source_dir, fname)
-        self.env.note_dependency(path.abspath(fpath))
-        try:
-            with io.open(fpath, encoding='utf-8') as fp:
-                content = fp.read()
-        except Exception:
-            text = 'The NEWS file is not available.'
-            node = nodes.strong(text, text)
-            return [node]
-        content = issue_re.sub(r':issue:`\1`', content)
-        # Fallback handling for the GitHub issue
-        content = gh_issue_re.sub(r':gh:`\1`', content)
-        content = whatsnew_re.sub(r'\1', content)
-        # remove first 3 lines as they are the main heading
-        lines = ['.. default-role:: obj', ''] + content.splitlines()[3:]
-        self.state_machine.insert_input(lines, fname)
-        return []
-
-
 # Support for building "topic help" for pydoc
 
 pydoc_topic_labels = [
@@ -338,6 +298,5 @@ def setup(app):
     app.add_directive_to_domain('py', 'awaitablefunction', PyAwaitableFunction)
     app.add_directive_to_domain('py', 'awaitablemethod', PyAwaitableMethod)
     app.add_directive_to_domain('py', 'abstractmethod', PyAbstractMethod)
-    app.add_directive('miscnews', MiscNews)
     app.connect('env-check-consistency', patch_pairindextypes)
     return {'version': '1.0', 'parallel_read_safe': True}
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/changelog.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/changelog.rst
index b4356143659031..e796d4157cec76 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/changelog.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/changelog.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 .. _changelog:
 
+.. default-role:: py:obj
+
 +++++++++
 Changelog
 +++++++++
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.3rc1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.3rc1.rst
index 2424604249a65c..cfc729dd82556f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.3rc1.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.3rc1.rst
@@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ after a commit.
 .. section: Library
 
 A new version of typing.py from https://github.com/python/typing:
-Collection (only for 3.6) (Issue #27598). Add FrozenSet to __all__
+Collection (only for 3.6) (issue #27598). Add FrozenSet to __all__
 (upstream #261). Fix crash in _get_type_vars() (upstream #259). Remove the
 dict constraint in ForwardRef._eval_type (upstream #252).
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0a4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0a4.rst
index 3abbdecb57038b..6f3f5262e5749d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0a4.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0a4.rst
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Support keyword arguments to zlib.decompress().  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
 .. section: Library
 
 Prevent segfault after interpreter re-initialization due to ref count
-problem introduced in code for Issue #27038 in 3.6.0a3. Patch by Xiang
+problem introduced in code for issue #27038 in 3.6.0a3. Patch by Xiang
 Zhang.
 
 ..
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0b1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0b1.rst
index bd54cf601d053b..1e2dcdd6c642bb 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0b1.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.0b1.rst
@@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ chunked transfer-encoding.
 .. section: Library
 
 A new version of typing.py from https://github.com/python/typing: -
-Collection (only for 3.6) (Issue #27598) - Add FrozenSet to __all__
+Collection (only for 3.6) (issue #27598) - Add FrozenSet to __all__
 (upstream #261) - fix crash in _get_type_vars() (upstream #259) - Remove the
 dict constraint in ForwardRef._eval_type (upstream #252)