diff --git a/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml b/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index eda5fdb..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-# Workflow derived from https://github.com/r-lib/actions/tree/v2/examples
-# Need help debugging build failures? Start at https://github.com/r-lib/actions#where-to-find-help
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [main, prod]
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [main, prod]
-  release:
-    types: [published]
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-name: pkgdown
-
-jobs:
-  build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    # Only restrict concurrency for non-PR jobs
-    concurrency:
-      group: pkgdown-${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' || github.run_id }}
-    env:
-      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-      id-token: write
-      pages: write
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v2
-        with:
-          pandoc-version: "2.19.2"
-
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
-        with:
-          r-version: "release"
-          use-public-rspm: true
-          install-r: false
-          extra-repositories: "https://mc-stan.org/r-packages/"
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2
-        with:
-          pak-version: rc
-          extra-packages: any::pkgdown local::.
-          needs: website
-
-      - name: "Install cmdstan via cmdstanr"
-        uses: epinowcast/actions/install-cmdstan@v1
-        with:
-          cmdstan-version: "latest"
-
-      - name: Build site
-        run: "pkgdown::build_site_github_pages(new_process = FALSE, install = FALSE)"
-        shell: Rscript {0}
-
-      - name: Upload artifact for GH pages deployment
-        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v2
-        with:
-          path: "docs/"
-
-  deploy:
-    # check builds on PRs but only deploy when main changes
-    if: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
-    needs: build
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:
-      pages: write
-      id-token: write
-
-    environment:
-      name: github-pages
-      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Deploy to GitHub pages
-        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v2.0.4
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 75cb9f6..bc4ec52 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 
 This will serve as our change-log
 - Quasi-fork over the package infrastructure from `wwinference` to work on spatial components separately
+- Remove pkgdown github action workflow, duplicates `wwinference` and we don't want two websites for one package name
diff --git a/_pkgdown.yml b/_pkgdown.yml
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index 13aa9bb..0000000
--- a/_pkgdown.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-url: https://cdcgov.github.io/ww-inference-model/
-template:
-  bootstrap: 5