Unemployment rates grow in region

DENVER — August unemployment rates in Boulder and Broomfield counties each climbed to 3.1 percent, up from July’s 2.7 percent. Larimer County also climbed to 3 percent, up from 2.5 percent in July, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s monthly jobs report, released Friday. Weld County climbed from 2.8 percent to 3.2 percent.

In Boulder County, there were 185,716 people holding jobs with 6,014 people looking for work in August, according to the report.

Larimer County had 197,091 people employed with 6,095 people seeking employment.

Weld County had 159,208 people…