U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will be in Randolph Tuesday, touring a dairy farm at Vermont Technical College. She's here to highlight a training program that supports agricultural businesses.

Vermont's unemployment rate has climbed again. The state Department of Labor says the rate for July was 5.7 percent. That's up two-tenths of a percentage point from July.

Checks averaging about $4,000 are going out to about 700 Vermont contract workers of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services.