Custom Subdirectory Main Page – Index Page

I have a website with many sub-sections. News. Profiles. Forums. Instructional Guides.

Each of these subsections must exist in a subdirectory like /news/

And all the content for news must exist in
/news/subcategory1/article/
/news/subcategory2/article/

Therefore the “News Main Page” must also be at /news/

But WordPress doesnt allow this. If you have a category with a slug of “news” then no matter what – you must display their default archive page at /news/. It will not allow me to put together a “Page” and place it there, as the “News Center Main Page”.

Its a subsection of the site. Something every website on earth has. Obviously it needs a main page. Why isn’t this supported in WordPress?

I can’t have the News Center main page at a different slug because that puts it in a different directory. That makes absolutely no sense. Obviously if the articles are in /news/subcategory/articles then the main news page needs to be at the top of the heirarchy at /news/

How do I do this?